Hi all, On my web page I have a search function that searches my database for relative matches. I have pictures associated with each item in the database stored in my images directory on the server. The search calls a CGI script that displays the contents of the database relavent to the search and it needs to look in my images directory to see if the image exists. If the images exists i want to display that image, but if it does not, then I have a default image I want to display. I create the path out of variables to use in a "if" statement. 

my $path="http://servername.com/username/images/";
my $imagename="filename.jpg";
my $imagedefault="default.jpg";

if ( -e '$path.$imagename'){
print "<"."code><td><IMG SRC=."$path.$imagename."></td></code".">";
}
else
{
print "<" . "code><td><IMG SRC=".$path.$imagedefault."></td></code" ."
+>";
}

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I have verified that the images will print, and I have printed out the path from the variables and that it correct by doing.

print $path.$imagedefault;

And this displays the exact path that I use in the IMG tag and and the images displays just fine.

The problem is that: if ( -e '$path.$imagename') does not see that the file exists, so it always uses the default images, even if an image exists.

So, I am running everything from the same server and I have a CGI script trying to chack that a files exists. How can I do this? I have tried everything I can think of and it appears that I am doing what other threads have suggested, but no luck.

Thanks in advance!!!!

20031210 Edit by Corion: Added code tags

In reply to How to check If file exists? by Anonymous Monk

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