FLfile.exists()

Availability

Flash MX 2004 7.2.

Usage

FLfile.exists(fileURI)

Parameters

fileURI

A string, expressed as a file:/// URI, that specifies the file you want to verify.

Returns

A Boolean value of true if successful; false otherwise.

Description

Method; determines whether a specified file exists. If you specify a folder and a filename, the folder must already exist. To create folders, see FLfile.createFolder().

Examples

The following example checks for a file called mydata.txt in the temp folder and displays an alert box indicating whether the file exists:

var fileURI = "file:///c|/temp/mydata.txt"; 
if (FLfile.exists(fileURI)) { 
    alert( fileURI + " exists."); 
} 
else { 
    alert( fileURI + " does not exist."); 
}

The following example checks to see if a required configuration file exists in the MyApplication folder. If the file doesn’t exist, it is created.

var configFile = "file:///C|/MyApplication/config.ini"; 
if (!FLfile.exists(configFile)) { 
    FLfile.write(configFile,"");

}

See also

FLfile.write()