no matches... anyone got a light?

[Alex Tweedly]

Scott Morrow wrote:

> This seems a no-brainer but I've stalled.  I'm reading names from a  
> text file and then creating files based on these names.  I'd like to  
> check and see if the file already exists before creating a new one.   
> The text files were created in BBEdit.  I unable to figure out why I  
> can't cause a match using my data.  I've looked at the variables in  
> the debugger and even run charToNum comparisons ( everyone seems to  
> be using the ascii 10 LF.)  But even though it seem like it should  
> match... it don't.
>
>
>  if tName is among the lines of tPreExisitingFiles then
>       -- never gets here
>  end if
>
> alternately I tried
>
> set the wholematches to true
> if lineOffset(tName,tPreExisitingFiles) <> 0 then
>       -- never gets here
> end if
>
> Anything else I should  check?
>
File separator issue ? (i.e. "/" vs "\" vs ":")
How is the list of files generated ?  Whole path versus just the file name ?
Send a sample of the file that you read ... maybe someone will spot 
something ?

or try
 if there is a file "tName" then
 


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