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Files: To determine if a file exists, simply pass the filename to the Dir$ function and test to see if it returns a result. Note that Dir$ supports wild-cards, so to test for a specific file, the passed pathName should to be tested to ensure that it does not contain them. The sample below raises an...

NOTE: For brevity, the examples below use the FolderExists function from the Determining If Folders and Files Exist example in this topic. The MkDir statement can be used to create a new folder. It accepts paths containing drive letters (C:\Foo), UNC names (\\Server\Foo), relative paths (..\Foo...