Comments on: I would like to know the code to do a “if file exist then” in visual basic.

By: thefinder

thefinder — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:29:31 +0000

Thank you both Vatchy and Carlosdl,
It was my bad, yesterday on debugging I had told it to msgbox me and today I forgot that line was there, it’s now working as expected. you rock.

By: thefinder

thefinder — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:22:50 +0000

Thank you, it’s now working, but is there a way to have it check and not show the file and path to file in a msgbox before it replies to true or false.

By: vatchy

vatchy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:08:38 +0000

Sorry, major brain fart. Carlosdl is correct about how to call it. Replace the last two lines I gave you (Dim and If) and replace with his example.

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:41:39 +0000

Hi TheFinder.

Actually, you should call the function provided by Vatchy this way:

If Check_File() = True Then

(Replacing with the name of the file you want to check).

By: thefinder

thefinder — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:47:32 +0000

Ok. I’ve done as you stated but to no avail. Please clarify if you will. Thank you.

By: thefinder

thefinder — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:21:54 +0000

Where do I put the Private function at, declaratons? or on it’s on page?

By: vatchy

vatchy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:44:36 +0000

Try this function:

Private Function Check_File(sPath As String) As Boolean
    If Dir$(sPath) <> "" Then
        Check_File = True
    Else
        Check_File = False
    End If
End Function

Call it this way:

Dim bFileExists as Boolean
If bFileExists(your_filename) = True Then...

By: thefinder

thefinder — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:47:41 +0000

I still don’t understand. where do I put the file name, etc.