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Article #457Re: HELP wanted: filehandling in Visual Basic
From: Dennis Gellert
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:00
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:00
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In article <C1Ey0r.6z3@sci.kun.nl> heinr@sci.kun.nl (Hein Ragas) writes:
>From: heinr@sci.kun.nl (Hein Ragas)
>Subject: HELP wanted: filehandling in Visual Basic
>Summary: Help me please!
>Keywords: Visual Basic
>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:10:02 GMT
>Hello.
>
>I am fairly new to Visual Basic, but I have been working in Basic for a
>long time now.
>
>However, I have a problem, and I hope that someone more experienced with
>Visual Basic can help me solve it.
>
>Basically, it boils down to this:
> How can I determine whether a file (in this case a .BMP) exists in the
> given path?
>
>If someone can tell me what I have to do to solve this problem, please,
>mail me. I would be very grateful.
>
>Greetings,
> Hein Ragas
>
Try the Dir$ function
eg: tofind$ = Dir$("d:\path\filename.BMP")
If found, tofind$ will return the filename, else it will contain a null
string.
Dennis
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