Check if folder (or file) exists under XP

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Mon Jun 11 17:42:50 EDT 2007


On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:15:52 +0000, runrev260805 at m-r-d.de wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> is there a command/function in rev, which checks if a folder or file 
> exists under windows xp?
> 
> Searched the docs and Gmane for "folder" and "direcotry". Couldn´t 
> find anything.
> 
> Any ideas?

Check out "there is a folder", as in:

if there is a folder "C:\Program Files\MyApp" then
  answer "Yahoo!"
else
  answer "Bummer!"
end if

BTW, you can also use "there is not a folder" to check to see if the 
folder *doesn't* exist.


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/



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