备注:在c++ 14中，一旦文件系统TS完成并被采用，解决方案将使用:

std::experimental::filesystem::exists("helloworld.txt");

从c++ 17开始，只有:

std::filesystem::exists("helloworld.txt");

inline bool exist(const std::string& name)
{
    ifstream file(name);
    if(!file)            // If the file was not found, then file is 0, i.e. !file=1 or true.
        return false;    // The file was not found.
    else                 // If the file was found, then file is non-0.
        return true;     // The file was found.
}

all_of (begin(R), end(R), [](auto&p){ exists(p); })

其中R是你的路径序列，exists()来自未来std或当前boost。如果你自己卷，简单点，

bool exists (string const& p) { return ifstream{p}; }

分支解决方案并不是绝对可怕的，它不会吞噬文件描述符，

bool exists (const char* p) {
    #if defined(_WIN32) || defined(_WIN64)
    return p && 0 != PathFileExists (p);
    #else
    struct stat sb;
    return p && 0 == stat (p, &sb);
    #endif
}

还有一个更简单的方法

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>

void FileExists(std::string myfile){
std::ifstream file(myfile.c_str());

if (file) {
    std::cout << "file exists" << std::endl;
}
else {
    std::cout << "file doesn't exist" << std::endl;
}
}

int main() {
FileExists("myfile.txt");

return 0;
}

如果你需要区分一个文件和一个目录，考虑下面这两个都使用stat的最快标准工具，如PherricOxide所演示的:

#include <sys/stat.h>
int FileExists(char *path)
{
    struct stat fileStat; 
    if ( stat(path, &fileStat) )
    {
        return 0;
    }
    if ( !S_ISREG(fileStat.st_mode) )
    {
        return 0;
    }
    return 1;
}

int DirExists(char *path)
{
    struct stat fileStat;
    if ( stat(path, &fileStat) )
    {
        return 0;
    }
    if ( !S_ISDIR(fileStat.st_mode) )
    {
        return 0;
    }
    return 1;
}

与PherricOxide的建议相同，但在C中

#include <sys/stat.h>
int exist(const char *name)
{
  struct stat   buffer;
  return (stat (name, &buffer) == 0);
}