----------------------------------- Bege Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:06 pm Reading a file: checking to see if a file exists. ----------------------------------- Does anyone know what the code is to check if a file exists? Ex: If the user was asked to enter the name of a file to load, then the program could check if the file exists. Then the program wouldn't crash when the user enters a file name which does not exist, but rather just tell the user that that file does not exist. ----------------------------------- Mazer Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:11 pm ----------------------------------- File.Exists (pathName : string) : boolean it's a function that takes a path name for a file and returns true or false depending on whether or not the file exists. eg var filename : string get filename if File.Exists (filename) then put "So, there you go." end if well, that should do it. ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:12 pm ----------------------------------- well you could use assert, but I think that will terminate the program. when you open the file, the pointer to it is assigned a possitive integer. If that variable is 0 or a negative, it means file was not opened so you should display an appropriate message. var file:int open : file, "test.txt", get if file