Check if path name exists

[Ka-Tja]

Hi, I hope, that someone can help. I want to check if the pathname exists. If YES -do this, else - do that.

Something in this direction.

MyPath = app.activeDocument.pathItems.getByName("name");

if (MyPath.name exists) {

Do this ...

}

else {

Do that...

}

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

I think if the path does not exist the code will crash while trying to use the getByName method. So you can use try catch block to solve your problem

var exists = false
try{
  var MyPath = app.activeDocument.pathItems.getByName("name");
  exists = true
}
catch(e)
{
}
if (exists) {
Do this ...
}
else {
Do that...
}

-Manan

[Ka-Tja]

It works 🙂

Thank you!