From: Geoff Allen <geoff@wsu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [comp.lang.perl.misc] Re: Checking for a file
Date: 28 Oct 1997 15:07:48 +0100

Subject: Re: Checking for a file 
From: Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc

>>>>> "John" == John Grimm <jgrimm@wireedm.com> writes:

John> How can I check to see if a file is there or not?

Try to remove it with unlink. If the result is 0, it wasn't there.
If the result is 1, it's not there now.

:-)