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Pure JavaScript
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Pure JavaScript

by Allen R. Wyke, Jason Gilliam, Charlton Ting
August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
1488 pages
72h 53m
English
Sams
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FileSystemObject.FolderExists()

JScript3.0+Syntax

							filesystemobject.FolderExists(foldername)

Description

The FolderExists() method is used to determine whether or not a specified folder exists on the current system. This method takes foldername as its only parameter, which represents the name of folder to check.

Example

Listing 9.80 shows an example of how to determine if the tmp folder exists.

Listing 9.80 Example of FolderExists()
<html>
<body>

<script language="JScript">
<!-- Hide

function checkfolder()
{
  var myObject;
  // Create an instance of the FileSystemObject
  myObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); // Check for the tmp folder if(myObject.FolderExists("c:\\tmp")){ alert("tmp Folder Exists"); } else { alert("tmp ...
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