You probably want to put require'files' at the top of that script. -Dan
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sprague, Webb (OFM) Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 4:33 PM To: General forum Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Function: open file, barf if doesn't exist This looks promising, but it doesn't work (J504 -- various reasons, but we can't upgrade) > Here is a variation which I think will do what you want: > > readfile =: 3 : 0 > if. fexist y do. > fread y > else. > ('readfile: ', y, ' does not exist') 13!:8(24) > end. > ) x =. readfile 'c:\git_shell_ext_debug.txt' x =. readfile 'c:\git_shell_ext_debug.txt' |control error: readfile |readfile[1] Thanks for your attention! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
