[ic] if file in 5.0 working ?

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Jon (prtyof5 at attglobal.net):
> > I pulled this from the archives which used to work in 4.9.x but doesn't
> > seem to since 5.0
> >
> > With interchange markup it might look something like this
> >
> > [if type=file term="some_dir/some_dir/[item-code].jpg"]
> >  Yep it's here
> > [else]
> >  Nope it aint
> > [/else]
> > [/if]
> >
> 
>    Is it just me that is having a problem with the above example ?
> Since you can't use straight perl test methods such as  if ( -e "file")
> from within IC I'm not sure what else to do to get around this
> problem.  Unless of course this is a problem for me alone.
> 

Actually, you can do

[calc]
	my $fn = 'catalog.cfg';
	if(-f $fn) {
		return "File exists.";
	}
	else {
		return "File doesn't exist.";
	}
[/calc]

The -f test is allowed by the SafeUntrap defaults. If you wanted
-e to work, I think you have to do:

    SafeUntrap  ftis

It is one of the things documented in "perldoc Opcode".

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