TSE: How to check if a file exists in the ring?

[knud van eeden]

Hi,

 

FYI

 

http://goo.gl/fCj82

 

with friendly greetings,

Knud van Eeden

 

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[Fred H Olson]

Thanks Knud.

On Sat, 18 May 2013, knud van eeden wrote:

> http://goo.gl/fCj82

which says:

>A specific TSE native keyword to check if a file exists in the TSE ring
>of files does not exist currently.
>
>---
>
>As an alternative workaround create e.g. a TSE function which checks if
>the GetBufferId() with that filename is zero or not.

GetBufferId("path/filename") seems to do what I needed.
How does GetBufferId() fall short?

Fred




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