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");

在不使用其他库的情况下，我喜欢使用以下代码片段:

#ifdef _WIN32
   #include <io.h> 
   #define access    _access_s
#else
   #include <unistd.h>
#endif

bool FileExists( const std::string &Filename )
{
    return access( Filename.c_str(), 0 ) == 0;
}

这适用于Windows和posix兼容系统的跨平台。

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;
}

我编写了一个测试程序，每个方法都运行了10万次，一半在存在的文件上，一半在不存在的文件上。

#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

inline bool exists_test0 (const std::string& name) {
    ifstream f(name.c_str());
    return f.good();
}

inline bool exists_test1 (const std::string& name) {
    if (FILE *file = fopen(name.c_str(), "r")) {
        fclose(file);
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }   
}

inline bool exists_test2 (const std::string& name) {
    return ( access( name.c_str(), F_OK ) != -1 );
}

inline bool exists_test3 (const std::string& name) {
  struct stat buffer;   
  return (stat (name.c_str(), &buffer) == 0); 
}

在5次运行中平均运行100,000个调用的总时间结果，

stat()函数在我的系统(Linux，用g++编译)上提供了最好的性能，如果您出于某种原因拒绝使用POSIX函数，那么标准的fopen调用是您最好的选择。

虽然有几种方法可以做到这一点，但对您的问题最有效的解决方案可能是使用fstream的预定义方法之一，例如good()。使用此方法可以检查指定的文件是否存在。

fstream file("file_name.txt");

if (file.good()) 
{
    std::cout << "file is good." << endl;
}
else 
{
    std::cout << "file isnt good" << endl;
}

我希望这对你有用。

It depends on where the files reside. For instance, if they are all supposed to be in the same directory, you can read all the directory entries into a hash table and then check all the names against the hash table. This might be faster on some systems than checking each file individually. The fastest way to check each file individually depends on your system ... if you're writing ANSI C, the fastest way is fopen because it's the only way (a file might exist but not be openable, but you probably really want openable if you need to "do something on it"). C++, POSIX, Windows all offer additional options.

While I'm at it, let me point out some problems with your question. You say that you want the fastest way, and that you have thousands of files, but then you ask for the code for a function to test a single file (and that function is only valid in C++, not C). This contradicts your requirements by making an assumption about the solution ... a case of the XY problem. You also say "in standard c++11(or)c++(or)c" ... which are all different, and this also is inconsistent with your requirement for speed ... the fastest solution would involve tailoring the code to the target system. The inconsistency in the question is highlighted by the fact that you accepted an answer that gives solutions that are system-dependent and are not standard C or C++.