1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3d33d0967SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 4cdf0e10cSrcweir * 5d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6d33d0967SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7d33d0967SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 8d33d0967SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9d33d0967SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11d33d0967SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12cdf0e10cSrcweir * 13d33d0967SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14cdf0e10cSrcweir * 15d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16d33d0967SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18d33d0967SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19d33d0967SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20d33d0967SAndrew Rist * under the License. 21cdf0e10cSrcweir * 22d33d0967SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 23d33d0967SAndrew Rist 24cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 26cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03020415xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">FileExists Function [Runtime]</title> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020415.xhp</filename> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="fileexists"> 335b00253eSmseidel<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148946"> 345b00253eSmseidel<bookmark_value>FileExists function</bookmark_value> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 36*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148946" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020415.xhp" name="FileExists Function [Runtime]">FileExists Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153361" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Determines if a file or a directory is available on the data medium.</paragraph> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 39*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150447" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 40*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154685" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">FileExists(FileName As String | DirectoryName As String)</paragraph> 41*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154126" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Return value:</paragraph> 42*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150769" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Bool</paragraph> 43*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 44*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147349" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">FileName | DirectoryName: Any string expression that contains an unambiguous file specification. You can also use <link href="text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp" name="URL notation">URL notation</link>.</paragraph> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 47*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149664" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 48*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145272" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sub ExampleFileExists</paragraph> 49*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147317" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">msgbox FileExists("C:\autoexec.bat")</paragraph> 50*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153190" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">msgbox FileExists("file:///d|/bookmark.htm")</paragraph> 51*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148645" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">msgbox FileExists("file:///d|/private")</paragraph> 52*9a8fab4bSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end sub</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 55