how to know if a path exists or not

[Anonymous Monk]

I have a windows path like below,i want to know if this path exists or not,please suggest how can this be done in perl c:\data\logs

[tobyink]

There is a group of built-in Perl functions to do this sort of thing (checking the existence of files, whether they're readable/writeable/executable, whether they're directories, files or something else, etc). This group of functions is unusual in that their names all begin with a hyphen; usually hyphens are not permitted in function names.

if (-e "C:\\Data\\Logs") {
  print "it exists!\n";
}
if (-d "C:\\Data\\Logs") {
  print "it is a directory!\n";
}
if (-r "C:\\Data\\Logs") {
  print "it is readable!\n";
}
if (-w "C:\\Data\\Logs") {
  print "it is writeable!\n";
}

See the documentation for -X in perlfunc.

[kennethk]

File test operations are cataloged in -X. In particular, -e will tell you if something exists at that path, and -f and -d will test if a given string corresponds to a file and a directory respectively.

[Anonymous Monk]

I would try to open the path and see if it exists or not