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Re: [Sheflug] Slightly OT :perl file exists test

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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:00:08 +0100
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On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 11:44, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Can anyone provide me with a couple of lines of perl to test whether a file
> exists or not please.  I think I could work it by doing an "open or die" but
> I seem to remember this wasn't a very efficient way of doing it.  I'm
> editing the cgi scripts for Dansguardian on IPCop so that links to edit the
> "included" files are presented at the bottom of each "edit file" page.

Have a look at the documentation at www.perl.org regarding file opening
and closing. The return values from these functions will do what you
want.

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