Friedlander, J.
It seems evident to us that a juvenile court’s order declining to approve the filing of a delinquency petition under I.C. § 31-37-10-2 is not “an order granting a motion to dismiss an indictment or information” for the purposes of I.C. § 35-38-4-2(1). Rather, a juvenile court’s decision not to approve the filing of a juvenile delinquency petition prevents the initiation of juvenile proceedings in the first place. One cannot dismiss a proceeding that was really never commenced to begin with. It appears that the State has not in the past treated such decisions as dismissals giving the State a right to appeal. At least, we have not discovered a case in which the State appealed a juvenile court’s refusal to approve the filing of a delinquency petition.
Thus, if the juvenile court in this case had initially declined to approve the filing of the delinquency petition against I.T., the State would have no right to appeal. In this case, however, the juvenile court initially approved the filing of the delinquency petition, but later withdrew its approval. We do not believe this fact does anything to change the nature or import of the juvenile court’s order declining to approve the filing of the delinquency petition, e.g., it does not transform that order into a dismissal. This court has repeatedly noted that “a trial court has the inherent power to reconsider any previous ruling so long as the action remains in fieri.” Johnson v. Estate of Brazill, 917 N.E.2d 1235, 1239 n.5 (Ind. Ct. App. 2009).
Nor can we conclude that, in this particular case, the specific language in the juvenile court’s order indicating that it was dismissing the delinquency petition, in part because it had withdrawn its original approval thereof, transforms the court’s action into a dismissal. The juvenile court’s order declining to approve the filing of the delinquency petition, although entered after initially approving the filing, retroactively rescinded the initiation of juvenile proceedings. Because the juvenile court rescinded its order approving the filing of the delinquency petition, the purported dismissal of the delinquency petition was superfluous. Put another way, once the juvenile court “unapproved” the initial filing of the delinquency petition, there was no delinquency petition left to dismiss.
Because we conclude that the juvenile court’s order was not “an order granting a motion to dismiss an indictment or information” for the purposes of I.C. § 35-38-4-2(1), we conclude that the State has no statutory right to appeal in this case, regardless of the merits of the juvenile court’s ruling. We therefore dismiss the State’s appeal.
BROWN, J. and PYLE, J., concur.