FileExists

Icetips Utilities Documentation 1/23/2017

Core Class: FileExists

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Prototype:

(String pFileName, Long pAttribute=FF_:Normal),Long

pFileName

The file name to check if exist. The pFileName parameter can contain wildcards for the filename and extension.

pAttribute

Attribute to look for. By default it is set to FF_:Normal. Added August 3, 2010

Returns

The number of files that matches the pFileName parameter.

This method is to replace the EXISTS function in Clarion. It is not always reliable unless the filename is changed to a ShortPath(). The FileExists method uses the DIRECTORY() function in Clarion to check for the file existence. This has a second benefit also because you can specify wildcards for the filename and the function will return the number of files that exist and match the wildcards.

Example:

ITC ITCoreClass

p CSTRING(2049)

CODE

p = 'c:\temp\*.txt'

MESSAGE('Files matching "' & p & '" = ' & ITC.FileExists(p))

CoreClass_FileExists_Example