searching workarea if a file exists.

sspopuri

I want to search for a file (usual with a path with in a workware) if it exists.

Is there a way to do this? The file could be anything like image, pdf, text etc.

Any help would he appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
shyam.

jbonifaci

If you have the full path to the file and want to check if it exists in perl, you can use the -e <path> test. If you want to find a file in any subdirectory within a given base directory, you can do this in perl with opendir. This will give you back the list of files and directories in the root directory. If you don't find the file here, recursively open each of the sub-directories until you either find the file or have searched all directories.