delete files from c++ code

[monageasmear]

i was trying system(del(filename)); but its giving error any ideas??? thanks

[Graham Bradshaw]

That's really going the long away around to delete a file. How about the DeleteFile function?

[Verolix]

Try: #include <stdio.h> remove(const char *filename);

[Erik Funkenbusch]

Del is not a program. It's a shell builtin, just like dir is. Thus, system doesn't know what Del is. There is no del.exe. Use DeleteFile if you're using Win32 code, or remove if using standard C code. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?

[toxcct]

Erik Funkenbusch wrote: Del is not a program. It's a shell builtin, just like dir is. Thus, system doesn't know what Del is. There is no del.exe. del.exe doesn't exist, but system() doesn't launch programs. it executes shell's commands, just as del, dir, cls... if you try system("cls");, your screen (in console mode, of course) will be cleared... the problem in monageasmear's code is that he doesn't enclose the system()'s parameter into ""... cheers,

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[toxcct]

i think if you had written

system("del filename");

if would have worked. first, you must know the del shell's command syntax ; secondly, if you had a look at the MSDN, you would see that system() gets a LPCTSTR, it means a const TCHAR*, that's why i use a string parameter... and to finish, system() is not recommended, as Graham Bradshaw , [DFS] Zero and Erik Funkenbusch said...

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