It works, thank you so much!

Thanks stuart, it works nicely.

You can also try in Windows, if ( 0 == _access( database.c_str(), 0 ) ) { cout<<"No database found.\n" } and the nix equivelant is if ( 0 == access( database.c_str(), 0 ) ) { cout<<"No database found.\n" }

Thanks Stuart, very useful..

Aside from what David said, that code's fine :-) Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

Hi, this is the C# forum, C# is one of the .NET languages. For plain old C you should post on the C++/MFC forum. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get - use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets modified on Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:47 PM modified on Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:23 AM