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. 
–
Steve Merrick
“Who cares, wins”
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.
You were close:
File.exists?("filename") -> true or false
HTH,
Lyle
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.
–
Pablo Lorenzzoni (Spectra) spectra@debian.org
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Webpage: http://people.debian.org/~spectra/
Steve Merrick wrote:
Have a look at Kernel#test for the entire Perl/shell scala of tests.
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.
–
Steve Merrick“Who cares, wins”
Thanks all! As a C++ programmer, I’m not used to looking for mixins, so
I failed to notice FileTest. 
The ‘dir’ project continues, and I’m
learning lots. 
–
Steve Merrick
“Who cares, wins”
“Han Holl” han@pobox.com wrote in message
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Steve Merrick wrote:
Have a look at Kernel#test for the entire Perl/shell scala of tests.
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.
–
Steve Merrick“Who cares, wins”
