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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Lua: check if file exists
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:17:03 +0200
From: Hans Hagen <[email protected]>
To: Henning Hraban Ramm <[email protected]>
On 10/14/2025 6:53 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Hi again,
Lua has no function to check if a file exists.
ATM I’m using this:
function userdata.file_exists(name)
local f=io.open(name,"r")
if f~=nil then io.close(f) return true
else return false end
end
Is there anything (better) in ConTeXt?
to grep or not to grep ...
io.exists(filename)
lfs.isfile(filename)
and some more, depending on needs
Hans
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