[Scilab-users] File exist function?

[Antoine ELIAS]

Hello Claus,

You can use "isfile" function to check existence if a file and "isdir" 
for folder.
https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.0/en_US/isfile.html
https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.0/en_US/isdir.html

Regards,
Antoine
Le 25/01/2018 à 17:43, Claus Futtrup a écrit :
> Dear Scilabers
>
> I wish to check for the existence of some files. For this I created a 
> simple function:
>
> [out]=function  file_exist(fname)
>      [fd,  err]  =  mopen(fname);  // Try to open file, mode: 'br'(binary-reading)
>      if  err==0  then
>          out=%t;
>          mclose(fname);
>      else
>          out=%f
>      end
> endfunction
>
> I didn't check, but presumably this would work.
>
> Is such a function already available? Which way is the "official" way 
> to do this in Scilab?
>
> Maybe I'm searching for the wrong word, but I found some ways in 
> Scilab. The "fileinfo" seems to be the closest one to what I wish to do.
>
> Matlab has a function "exist()" which can check for files too. Scilab 
> has the function "exists()" - notice the function name is plural, not 
> singluar - and this one AFAIK only works for Scilab variables (not 
> files), although I didn't check.
>
> If fileinfo is the right way, maybe an example for the help could be 
> to make a file_exist function, to show ... (?) ... when I search for 
> Scilab file exist function, I'm not guided in any 
> specific way/direction and find myself insecure whether I find the 
> right help.
>
> Best regards,
> Claus
>
>
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