testing the existance of a file...

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Wed Mar 15 18:30:23 UTC 2006


If you look at the comment for String>>asFileName it just returns
another String after doing some checks and conversions as needed.  What
you want I believe is something like

FileDirectory default fileExists: (filename asFileName).

Where filename is a string containing the filename.

Ken

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 15:41 +0100, nelson - wrote:
> Hi all,
>    i can't figure out how to test the existance of a file. The book
> i'm reading says to use
> 
> aFileName exists
> 
> but if i create a filename from a string sending the message
> 
> aString asFilename
> 
> Squeak says that it doesn't understand the exists message..
> 
> any help?
> 
> 
> thanks,
>   nelson
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