Course of Raku / Objects, I/O, and exceptions / Input and output / Working with directories / Exercises / File or directory?

Solution: File or directory?

Here is a possible solution to the task.

Code

spurt 'a.txt', 'x';

say 'a.txt'.IO.f;
say 'a.txt'.IO.d;

🦋 You can find the source code in the file file-or-directory.raku.

Output

True
False

Comments

1. .f tests for a regular file, so it returns True for a.txt.

2. .d tests for a directory. Asked about the very same path, it returns False, because a.txt is a file, not a directory. The two tests are complementary, which is how you tell a file and a directory apart.

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