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<node id="1003293" title="Re^2: File existance check failure" created="2012-11-10 20:34:29" updated="2012-11-10 20:34:29">
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Festus Hagen</author>
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Much Thanks.

&lt;p&gt;With that I brewed the following:
&lt;code&gt;
sub fexist($) {
  my $str = shift;
  for (glob qq("$str")) {
    return 1 if -e "$_";
  }
  return 0;
}
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;However I have use for the Link, Directory, File result so:
&lt;code&gt;
sub fexist($) {
  my $str = shift;
  for (glob qq("$str")) {
    return 3 if -l "$_";
    return 2 if -d "$_";
    return 1 if -f "$_";
  }
  return 0;
}
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Critiques ??&lt;br&gt;
Comments ??&lt;br&gt;
Suggestions ??&lt;br&gt;
Improvements ??&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;-Enjoy&lt;br&gt;fh &lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#FF0000"&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; )_~&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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