[Gambas-user] Checking whether a file exists

[Benoît Minisini]

> 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
> 

Hi,

In revision #3940, I have added an extra optional parameter to the Exist() 
function, to tell it if symbolic links must be followed or not.

It is backward compatible with the old syntax.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini