From: Pablo Lorenzzoni <spectra@...>
Date: 2002-06-20T05:46:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question

Hello,

I am also a newbie, but I think you're in the wrong path. According to the 
Pragmatic Programmers Guide you should be using FileTest module. They sugest:
FileTest.exist?('filename')

I believe File class import FileTest automatically. If this is true, 
File.exist?('filename') should work as well. (I haven't tested it, though)

[]s

Pablo

Em Qua 19 Jun 2002 17:26, Steve Merrick escreveu:
| My first Ruby program is an equivalent of the MS-DOS 'dir' command -
| just for learning purposes, you understand! ;-)
|
| I can't seem to find the method that will tell me whether or not a file
| exists. File.stat("filename").file? (and similar methods) throw a system
| error if the file doesn't exist.
|
| Help a newbie out? TIA. :-)

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