Re: checking for presence of files
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- Subject: [mg24509] Re: checking for presence of files
- From: Harald Giese <giese at ifm.uni-hamburg.de>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 03:01:46 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Institut fuer Meereskunde, Universitaet Hamburg
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Otto Linsuain wrote:
>
> Hi all. I know the answer to this could be system-dependent. I work
> with Mathematica 4.0 on unix workstations.
>
> I wonder if it is possible to define a function that checks if a file
> exists in your disk, something like
>
> FindFile[filename_String] = True if the file exists, False otherwise.
>
Hi Otto,
You have been close to the answer:
FileNames[filename_String] != {}
Regards,
Harald
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