I am trying to see if a particular file exists, but can't get this code to work.

$mall_path is a relative link to a root directory
$filename is the file I am interested in
keywords is a directory 
if (-e "$mall_path/keywords/$filename") 
{ 
    #file exists - set variable and other things
}

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Do I need to concatenate this? Use single quotes? etc?
I just want to set a variable now--not try to open the file and catch the exception.

Thanks

(I think I put this in the wrong category, but I won't repost since there are already several responses.)

Update: this is on Unix

Update: I found my stupid mistake--I was passing in the wrong file name. The code above works fine when I am looking for the correct file. Thanks for the help.

In reply to Testing if file exists by hoffj

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