Re: [Boost-users] FileSystem - Test if file exists without opening the file?

From: Luca Cappa (luca.cappa_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-26 09:34:16

Hello,

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:23:30 +0200, Jeff <jeff_j_dunlap_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I can see from a FileSystem example how to check for the existence of a
> directory.  What I would like to be able to do is to check for the  
> existence of
> a file but I couldn't figure out how to do it using exists().

Simply:

path filepath;// this is a path to a file
if (exists(filepath) && !is_directory(filepath))
{
... the file is there
}
else
{
...the file is not in there, or it is a directory.
}

Greetings,
Luca