Ouch! Can't open that file...

T. R. Ponn alptex2 at orwell.net
Wed Nov 26 09:01:11 EST 2003


Hello listers!

I just got burned by a change made sometime after vers 1.1.1, and I 
thought I'd pass it along.

In some parts of my app, I use "Open File for Read" and check the result 
for "Can't open that file."...therefore determining if a file exists or 
not.  Well...somewhere a change was made from "Can't open that file." to 
"can't open that file".  Note the subtle differences...the leading char 
is now lower case (probably NOT a problem) BUT... the "." at the end is 
gone!

My workround (because I'm still straddling 1.1.1 and 2.0.3 in my 
development for EXACTLY this reason) will be to use:

if the result contains "can't open that file" then....

Hmmm...wondering what else changed...

Best Regards and Happy Thanksgiving to all from beautiful Ohio Amish 
country!

Tim Ponn




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