Re: Examples of Safe File Handling
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- Subject: [mg36947] Re: Examples of Safe File Handling
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:16:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
FileNames[] returns an empty list if there are no
files. So
FileNames["blub.txt"]
will return {} if the file does not exist.
Regards
Jens
Steven wrote:
>
> I've been looking over the file and directory manipulation functions in Mathematica
> 4.1, and I'm not finding good examples of how to test for the existence of
> a file or directory before I attempt to create, access, or delete it. Are
> there any good examples of this somewhere?
>
> STH