[Gambas-user] Checking whether a file exists

[Fabien Bodard]

2011/7/12 tobias <tobiasboe1 at ...20...>:
> hi,
>
> in a project, i am searching directories recursively and opening files
> to search their content, too.
> while searching in the gambas2 sources my program crashed with "File or
> directory doesn't exist". so i noticed this one
>
> ? sFile
> ".../main/ltmain.sh"
> ? Exist(sFile)
> True
> ? File.Load(sFile)
> File or directory does not exist
>
> this is because the file is a symlink to another file that doesn't exist
> (maybe because i haven't compiled gambas2 from sources yet), so Exist
> says the file is there but when opening it, the symlink is resolved and
> there is an error.
> this may be irritating.
>
> developers, do you think it's necessary to do something here? (maybe
> Exist(sPath AS String, bFollowSymlinks AS Boolean) ?)
>
> regards,
> tobi
I think it's a good idea... stat already do that
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