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- From: bdwheele@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Brian Wheeler)
- Subject: Re: HELP wanted: filehandling in Visual Basic
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:53:59 GMT
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- In <1993Jan26.135724.234@samba.oit.unc.edu> dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina) writes:
-
- >>Basically, it boils down to this:
- >> How can I determine whether a file (in this case a .BMP) exists in the
- >> given path?
- >>
- >>If someone can tell me what I have to do to solve this problem, please,
- >>mail me. I would be very grateful.
- >>
- >You could set up a file list box for a particular drive and path
- >and search through the file list to see if the file is in the list.
-
- >I would also be interested if anyone has found a more efficient way
- >to do this.
- >Thx Dave L
-
- the Dir$ function Returns the name of a file matching a filespec. if the
- filespec is a filename without wildcards, it returns whether or not the file
- exists.
- Here's what I do:
-
- const False = 0
- Const True = Not False
-
- Function Exists(Filespec$)
- if Dir$(FileSpec$) <> "" then
- Exists = True
- Exit Function
- else
- Exists = False
- end if
- End Function
-
- Brian Wheeler
-
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