yes, i know what you're doing.... i'm just curious
what it's for and why you're doing it.

maybe you dont have to go to all the trouble of
moving/deleting/checking for filenames... maybe
you can make the overall logic of the program
flow better.... that's why i asked.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Kurth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 5:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re[2]: [PHP] Is there a better way to do this
> 
> 
> Hello scott,
> I what it to look and see if the file exists if it does not
> the look and see if the next file exists if it does change its name
> and run the rest of the script.
> 
> If nether exists the quit the program all together
> 
> Wednesday, May 16, 2001, 2:27:19 PM, you wrote:
> 
> scott [gts]> what are you trying to do that for?
> 
> scott [gts]> there's probably a much cleaner way to do what you 
> scott [gts]> want, but i dont really know what you want to do,
> scott [gts]> so i cannot suggest anything....
> 
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Richard Kurth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 5:10 PM
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: [PHP] Is there a better way to do this
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Is there a better way to do this    I want it to look and see if the
> >> userdata file is there and if true the bypass everything else run rest
> >> of code. If is not then check to see if userdat1 is and if it is
> >> change it's name to userdata the run rest of code. If none of the are
> >> there then gust shut down.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> if(file_exists("userdata")) {
> >>  end;
> >> } elseif(file_exists("userdata1")) {
> >>                  copy('userdata1','userdata') ;
> >>                 system("rm userdata1"); 
> >>             end;
> >>          } else {
> >>          exit;
> >>          }
> >> 
> >> 
> >>    < rest of code>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Best regards,
> >>  Richard  
> >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> 
> >> 
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