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Does UDF exist?
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Visual FoxPro
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Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01516054
Message ID:
01516064
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>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>Is there a method/approach to determine if a user-defined function exists? For example, say the application may or may not have a function MyFunct(). I thought that TYPE() would work but it does not seem to.
>>>>Here is how I used TYPE() in this case:
>>>>
>>>>? TYPE('MyFunct()')
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>But it seem to always return "U". Is there another method?
>>>
>>>
lbYesFunc = .t.
>>>TRY
>>>   lnResult = MyFunct()
>>>CATCH
>>>   lbYesFunc = .f. 
>>>ENDTRY 
>>>
>>>IF NOT lbYesFunc
>>>   MESSAGEBOX([Function don't exists])
>>>ENDIF
>>
>>Thank you. I was hoping that I would not have to run/execute the function to find out if it exists. But if this is the only way, so be it.
>
>Hi Dmitry,
>I don't know another way.

Thank you, Vladimir. Your approach will work.
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