Re: check if file exists

[Björn De Meyer <bjorn.demeyer@...>]

Markus Huber wrote:
> 
> > Björn De Meyer wrote:
> 
> > > Markus Huber wrote:
> 
> > > Any ideas how to check the existence of a file?
> 
> > Try opening the file with read only access.
> > If that fails the file does not exist.
> 
> Isn't it possible that the file exists with write access only? Or
> a protected file without read and write access? The file exists but
> opening fails.
> 
> --
> Markus

Yes, that is possible. However, such are the limitations of
ANSI C. And Lua's standard libraries are based upon pure ANSI C.
So either you integrate poslib for lua into your application, 
or you make do with ANSI C. If you really must use the standard
Lua, then maybe the os.execute() function (Lua 5) can help. 
With that, you can execute an arbitrary command, such as, 
say, the Unix utility "test". Write the result of "test" 
to a file or such, and read that back into Lua. 

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Björn De Meyer 
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