Hi Stelios For a ROOT file you can try to open it: TFile f("macro.root"); and then test if it actually exists with if( f.IsOpen() ) { .... } Hope this helps John > > > >On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Stilianos Kesisoglou wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >> Does anyone knows how to search for a file in the current working directory from a ROOT macro? >> >> Let's say my macro is named "macro.C" and when I run it on the prompt: >> >> prompt> root -l macro.C >> >> I want to be able to detect if a certain file let's say "macro.root" exists on the current working directory. >> >> How can I do that? >> >> Thanks! >> >>Stelios. >> >> >> > > > > -- ganil logo <http://www.ganil.fr> John D. Frankland <mailto:frankland@ganil.fr> Beam Coordinator GANIL B.P. 55027 14076 CAEN Cedex 05 *tel:* +33 (0)231454628 *fax:* +33 (0)231454665
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