Hi all
Can anyone tell me how can I check that a file exist or no.I mean when
you use this commands
FILE *fp;
if(!fp)
//Could not open the file
doen't show why it can not open it,may be the file doesn't exist.Now
tell me what should I do!
Thanks
52  7529  pa****@gmail.co m opined: Hi all
Can anyone tell me how can I check that a file exist or no.I mean
when you use this commands
FILE *fp;
if(!fp)
//Could not open the file
doen't show why it can not open it,may be the file doesn't exist.Now
tell me what should I do!
You can try reading `errno` (from <errno.h>) do get to the error code,
provided your implementation gives you one, and it's sensible (it's
not required by the Standard to do that). You'd have to set `errno` to
0 before calling `fopen()`, as library functions never do that. You
should consult documentation that came with your C compiler to see
what `errno` codes are available, and whether they can help you.
If your implementation does set useful error codes, you can then use
`strerror()` from <string.h> to get a huan-readable error string, or
`perror()` from <stdio.h>. Look them up in your manual.
Again, if your implementation does not provide sensible error
codes/messages, you're out in the cold. OTH, relying on your
implementation error codes/messages is more likely than not to make
your code non-portable.
--Ever heard of .cshrc?
That's a city in Bosnia. Right?
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.m isc on the intuitiveness of commands.)
<http://clc-wiki.net/wiki/Introduction_to _comp.lang.c>
I think this is what you are looking for :
FILE *fp
main(){
fp=fopen("somet hing.txt","r"); // open for reading
if (!fp) printf ("file doesn't exist");
else prinf("file exist");
fclose(fp);
}
MH wrote: I think this is what you are looking for :
FILE *fp
main(){
fp=fopen("somet hing.txt","r"); // open for reading
if (!fp) printf ("file doesn't exist");
else prinf("file exist");
fclose(fp);
}
Consider the following:
% touch something.txt
% chmod -r something.txt
% a.out
file doesn't exist
That's not correct.
MH <mi******@o2.pl > wrote: I think this is what you are looking for :
FILE *fp
main(){
fp=fopen("somet hing.txt","r"); // open for reading
if (!fp) printf ("file doesn't exist");
else prinf("file exist");
fclose(fp);
}
Sorry to be nitpicking, but this code has some serious flaws: You didn't
include stdio.h, which you need for fopen, fclose and printf. main()
should return an int. Your printf's might not show any output because
you forgot the terminating newlines, and the fclose() causes serious
undefined behaviour when the fopen() fails.
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
FILE *fp;
fp = fopen("somethin g.txt", "r");
if(fp == NULL) {
printf("file doesn't exist\n");
} else {
printf("file exists\n");
fclose(fp);
}
return 0;
}
--
:wq
^X^Cy^K^X^C^C^C ^C
"Ico" writes: I think this is what you are looking for :
FILE *fp
main(){
fp=fopen("somet hing.txt","r"); // open for reading
if (!fp) printf ("file doesn't exist");
else prinf("file exist");
fclose(fp);
}
Sorry to be nitpicking, but this code has some serious flaws:
Not to mention that it has nothing whatsoever to do with the question asked.
On 2006-04-16, pa****@gmail.co m <pa****@gmail.c om> wrote: Hi all
Can anyone tell me how can I check that a file exist or no.I mean when
you use this commands
FILE *fp;
if(!fp)
//Could not open the file
doen't show why it can not open it,may be the file doesn't exist.Now
tell me what should I do!
Thanks
I'm guessing from your pseudo code you already know how to open a file
and set fp etc.
On my system the man page for fopen refers me to "open" which lists
the values that the global "errno" is set to in the event of a failed
file open operation.
According to one man page I checked, fopen was ansi-c compliant. I cant
confirm this one way or another.
good luck
AT first thanks beacause of your informations,bu t I knew these,that you
wrote here.I think I don't explain my question well!
This is my question
What is the correct means of fp=='\0'
(I mean if fp=='\0' is equal to "FILE DOES NOT EXIST" or "you have some
errors <I don't know what but imagine something like you don't have
right permission to open the file>")
thanks
pa****@gmail.co m wrote: AT first thanks beacause of your informations,bu t I knew these,that you
wrote here.I think I don't explain my question well!
This is my question
What is the correct means of fp=='\0'
(I mean if fp=='\0' is equal to "FILE DOES NOT EXIST" or "you have some
errors <I don't know what but imagine something like you don't have
right permission to open the file>")
thanks
I believe Vladimir answered this part of your question well : fopen()
returns NULL on error (and NULL is not the same as '\0' !), and you can
inspect errno to find the nature of the error.
--
:wq
^X^Cy^K^X^C^C^C ^C
AT first thanks beacause of your informations,bu t I knew these,that you
wrote here.I think I don't explain my question well!
This is my question
What is the correct means of fp=='\0'
(I mean if fp=='\0' is equal to "FILE DOES NOT EXIST" or "you have some
errors <I don't know what but imagine something like you don't have
right permission to open the file>")
thanks
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