Subject Re: check to see if a file is in a dir before deleting it From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:57:54 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2021/04/18 20:51, Charlie wrote: > I am trying to check to see if a file actually exists in a particular directory before deleting it.  I can not figure this out. > > The only thing I have tried is: > > if xcsv+"\etext"+ltrim(str(ebno))+".csv" = true >       msgbox( "Success" ) >    endif > > Which is a futile attempt I realize. > > Instead of the message box success I would delete it if it exists with this: > delete file xcsv+"\etext"+ltrim(str(ebno))+".csv" > > I don't seem to be able to figure out a try, catch to do it. > > I realize this is not much info but I don't have much to give.  Any suggestions? > > Charlie > cFile ='d:\path\whatever.csv' //for a different folder or cFile = 'whatever.csv' // for the working folder if file(cFile)     new File().delete(cFile) endif If necessary you can build up the contents of cFile so that ? cFile shows d:\path\whatever.csv or whatever.csv as appropriate. Mervyn.