file system object

[usura]

Hi

I am building an upload script that overwrites any file with the same name,
however the file could be a jpg, gif, bmp etc

Using 'fso.FileExists ' i can find if a file of the same name exists and
remove it. The file will be saved as strMemberId.strFileExt

There is a possibility that file xyz.jpg may be re-uploaded as xyz.gif thus
while the new image will be written to the folder the previous file will not
be removed.

I am trying to find the best way of finding the file name of a file without
the extension so I can delete any files that may exist with the same name
but a have different extension. Is there a way of calling a wildcard in asp?
eg ' fso.FileExists(Server.MapPath("../tempfolder/" & strMemberId &".*" ))
' - tried this & several other combinations but it does not work.

The only other way I can see of doing it is to pass the file name into a
string, strip the extension off it and then build an array to loop through
the possible extensions but I am sure there is a better way.

Any thoughts?

Thanks In advance

J

[Andrew Urquhart]

*usura* wrote:

Hi

I am building an upload script that overwrites any file with the same
name, however the file could be a jpg, gif, bmp etc

Using 'fso.FileExists ' i can find if a file of the same name exists
and remove it. The file will be saved as strMemberId.strFileExt

There is a possibility that file xyz.jpg may be re-uploaded as
xyz.gif thus while the new image will be written to the folder the
previous file will not be removed.

I am trying to find the best way of finding the file name of a file
without the extension so I can delete any files that may exist with
the same name but a have different extension. Is there a way of
calling a wildcard in asp?
eg ' fso.FileExists(Server.MapPath("../tempfolder/" & strMemberId
&".*" )) ' - tried this & several other combinations but it does not
work.

The only other way I can see of doing it is to pass the file name
into a string, strip the extension off it and then build an array to
loop through the possible extensions but I am sure there is a better
way.

Any thoughts?

In the JScript docs, the DeleteFile method supports wildcards.
Alternatively instantiate a folder object and enumerate the files
collection within it checking the name of each item with a compiled
regexp containing your filename 'mask'.
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