On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Glenn Cannon wrote:
> Each day is held as a separate file, within a directory for the month. If
> nothing is happening that day, then there is no file.
>
> How do I go about checking to see if a file exists before attempting to open
> it for reading?
if( -e $filename) {
open ....
}
See perldoc -f -X for more details on using the file test operator.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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