FILE_EXISTS trouble

[CodeMonkey]

Hi,

I am having a problem with the 'Is' function within my install-script. I can not recognise the existence of a file which clearly exists on my disk. The reason for this is the space character within the specified path. If I rename the "My Stuff" directory "MyStuff", the 'Is' function call works as expected.

if (Is(FILE_EXISTS, "C:\My Stuff\MyFile.txt") == TRUE) then
doMyStuff();
end;

Can someone please tell me how to escape the space character? (My attempts to do so thus far have been unsuccessful) Thanks.

[skolte]

If you have a text file such as 'C:\My Test\test Copy.txt', this code should work:

if (Is(FILE_EXISTS, "C:\\My Test\\test Copy.txt")) then
    MessageBox("File Exists", 0);
endif;

The problems with your code were:

• there was no escape sequence for '\',
  
• '==' instead of '=' .. In fact you don't need it.
  
• end; instead of endif;
  

[CodeMonkey]

Thanks for your input. I am out of the office at present and entered a code snippet from 'memory' to describe the problem in simple terms. I think my actual code does not have all the flaws identified in this snippet, although it does exhibit some.

I will follow your suggestions tomorrow and hope for success.

[skolte]

🙂 .. Ok, I should have guessed that...Anyway, just for fun, I tried my code in a new sample, it works, so you should be able to use it as it is.