Subject Re: check to see if a file is in a dir before deleting it From Charlie <tm@tc.com> Date Sun, 18 Apr 2021 18:12:07 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started That was easy!!  Thanks Mervyn! Mervyn Bick Wrote: > 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. > > > > > >