Thread: Help with file checking

dont think there's a function to check if a file exists. You could check if the directory exists but not a file. There are two way to achive this. You use either call stat() to find the file information or the function will returns 0, if the file doesn't exits. Or use fopen to check if the file exsists. Like

Code:

int CheckFileExists( char *filename )
{
    FILE *fp;
    if( ( fp = fopen(filename,"r") ) != NULL )
    {  
        fclose( fp );
        return 1;
    }
    return 0;
}

ssharish

Okay I am starting to check out stat. Fopen was causing a Segmentation fault on Ubuntu, so thats why I wanted help.

Edit: I can use some help with stat. I'm not that good with structs yet.