Thread: Checking to see if a file exists...

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    Exclamation Checking to see if a file exists...

    How do I check to see if a file exists, then create on if it doesn't? I've been searching and trying different things to no avail. Is their a 'FileCreate' somewhere that I can use, or something like it?

    Mark
    Language: C++
    Compiler: Borland C++
    OS: Windows NT

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    if you are just going to create a file automatically if one doesn't exist just:
    Code:
    fstream myfile;
    myfile.open("File.txt",ios:: out|ios:: in);
    By default the OS will create a file if it does not find one, you'd actually have to add ios:: nocreate if you didn't want it to.

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