Hi Ric, Thanks again for the heads-up ...
Looking at dirutils.ijs ... I realized that I didn't really want direxist but what I really needed was patchcreate. :) r/Alex On Apr 28, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Sherlock, Ric wrote: > You could try the direxist verb from the general/dirutils addon. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Rufon <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2010 20:20 > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [Jprogramming] Checking for directory existence in Windows > > > Hi, > > I made an EDI to XML converter with Mac. But running the same code in Windows > stumbles into a problem. > > Technically, the following code returns different values in both windows and > mac: > IN WINDOWS: > load 'files' > fexist 'c:\Windows\' > 0 > > IN MAC: > load 'files' > fexist '/Users/bathala/Documents/' > 1 > > In both cases above, the directory exists but the results are different. > > Do we have an existing code that checks for existence of directories and > works in both Windows and OSX? > > Thanks. > > r/Alex > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
