File In Use

[uberwalla]

Hey I was just wondering if there is a way to tell through turing if there is a file in use. just to give an example of what i mean. You go to delete your c:/ drive but and then it stops and says file in use.

is there a way to tell if a file is/ isnt in use?

[ericfourfour]

Since you cannot delete a file that is in use this program might do the trick. This is straight out of the manual at File.Delete.

code:

% The "File.Delete" program. const pathName : string := "myfile.txt" % Create file var f : int var line : string open : f, pathName, put put : f, "There is a line here" close : f put pathName, " created" % Delete the file File.Delete (pathName) if Error.Last = eNoError then     put skip, pathName, " deleted" else     put skip, "Did not delete ", pathName     put "Error: ", Error.LastMsg end if

[uberwalla]

ok thx. i think that works i dont wanna actually test it on one of my files because it might not be in use but ok ty

[uberwalla]

ok sorry for double post but for some reason the help section (of all forums ) doesnt have edit button

anyways when u said skip was an actual command so i looked it up in reference to get its actual definition in full.

my question is:
if i were to delete many files at once using turing; this say: 1.txt, 2.txt, and 3.txt

if 1.txt was in use would the skip command tell it to skip to the next file (2.txt)?

because in skips definition it says that it just skips a line. like the "/n" in front of text in quotations does.

thx.

[Clayton]

No, skip would not skip that file. Like the help manual says, it simply skips a line in the run window. If you wanted to skip a file, just use an if statement.

[uberwalla]

thats the problem i dont know how lol

is there a command that skips a file? like
if filename = inUse then
File.Skip (filename)?????
end if

it doesnt work but is there a command like that especially the inuse one would be most useful lol

[Tony]

you just have to catch the error / exception, and continue on with the loop