Ouch! Can't open that file...

[T. R. Ponn]

Dan,

Good thought...I'll try it!

Best Regards,

Tim Ponn


Dan Friedman wrote:

>Tim,
>
>Thanks for the head's up!
>
>If all you want to do is check the existence of a file, ever think of using
>"If there is a file tFilePath then" instead of "open file tFilePath for
>read"?  This way you don't have to worry about changes in the engine.
>
>Just a thought...
>
>-Dan
>
> 
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>>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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