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Re: HELP wanted: filehandling in Visual Basic

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From: Barry Bond
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:53
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In article <1993Jan26.135724.234@samba.oit.unc.edu> dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina) writes:
>>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.
>>
>You could set up a file list box for a particular drive and path 
>and search through the file list to see if the file is in the list.
>
>I would also be interested if anyone has found a more efficient way
>to do this.
>Thx Dave L
>
>

It's easier to use DIR$() to check if a file exists:  eg.
if Dir$("c:\vb\test.bmp") <> "" then
   debug.print "File exists"
else
   debug.print "File not found"
endif

Barry.
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From: bcbond@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Barry Bond)
Subject: Re: HELP wanted: filehandling in Visual Basic
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