The -e test does work on MS-Win, not sure what the problem might be. One thing I can think of is that you should avoid relative paths because IIS will set the current directory to C: (if I remember correctly).
These work for me on Win2K: print -e 'C:/Perl'; print -e 'C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe'; print -e 'C:/Program Files'; print -e 'C:/Program Files/WinZip'; Rob -----Original Message----- From: Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: File existence under Microsoft IIS Hello, I have been trying a number of ways to determine whether a file exists in a particular directory, but to no avail. The perl books I have (and many web sites/forums I have checked) mention the '-e' test on a filehandle or filename, but it returns false (the file does not exist) even if it does. I have used code such as: if (-e 'filepath/filename') { # using absolute naming with full pathname etc. # display the file (image) in the HTML output } and if (-e "$filepath/$filename") { # using variables as the path and name information # display the file } and if (open(TMP, "<$filepath/$filename")) { # to test whether the file can be opened # I would expect a false (or undef) if the file did not exist # display the file } I commented out the if statement (and closing brace '}' ), and manually set the file to be displayed, and it worked. That was to check that the path & filename were correct. I would like to be able to display the image if it exists, or display another 'image does not exist' image if the image file does not exist. I have even tried the 'use File::stat' module methods. I do not get any fatal errors - the rest of the HTML output works fine - just no image displayed even though I know the filepath & name do indeed exist. Am I missing something obvious? The only thing I can think of at this stage is that the -e test (and related file tests) are for Unix-based servers and I am running from a MS IIS-based server. But if that were the case, wouldn't the server spit out an error that it didn't understand -e? Are there similar (but different) file tests for IIS? Thanks in advance, Mike. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
