There's nothing wrong with [file isfile $filename] either. As I'm saying there's a million of oneliners for it.

I am not sure if I'm getting my point clear. I'm presuming you are trying to defend that yes, you can check if a file exists in Tcl, even if there's no specific function for it, but that is, again, exactly my point. Like what you're doing, I've shown many ways to do it in VB.

I guess the fact that someone needs to nitpick me in exactly the same way I was nitpicking the GP is quite the proof that the analogy works perfectly...