What's the best way to find out if a file exists?

[Alex Rice]

On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 05:21  PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Dang! I was dimly aware of the "there is a" construct but I thought it 
> was synonymous with "exists" (I might perhaps be forgiven for thinking 
> so...). Anyway, thanks Alex, that's just what I wanted to know!

No worries, I went through the same thing. One would think that 
"exists" and "there is a" would be interchangeable.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
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