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>"Dominic D'Apice" <dapiced@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>news:mailman.1032687678.1150.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
>Hello all,
>
>How can i know if a text file exist ?
>
>I mean :
>
>Procedure IF_FILE_EXIST is
>Begin
>.
>end IF_FILE_EXIST;
>

How about something along the lines of:

Pseudo code:

  Procedure IF_FILE_EXIST is
  begin
     open the existing file
     close the file
     return true;
  exception
     when the exception occurs that is associated with a file not present =>
       return false;
  end IF_FILE_EXIST;

I hope this helps (I hope it works too!)

SteveD

>thank in advance
>Dominic