From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-11-21T03:32:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25935] Re: Checking if a file exists...

In article <8D96EDA0AC04D31197B400A0C96C148003C04752@ossex1.corp.webb.net>,
Ben Schumacher  <BSchumacher@jabber.com> wrote:
>I was wondering if somebody had an easy way of checking if a file exists on
>a filesystem without using begin/rescue. I might be making this too
>complicated on myself, but I can't seem to find any other way. I was hopign
>there was something like a "File.exists" or similar.
>

if FileTest.exists?("filename")
   #read it
else
   #it doesn't exist so don't try to read it
end


Phil