Delete all files in a folder

[Nacho Chip]

Hello, Can anyone tell me which function I can use to delete all file in a folder. Any standard ANSI C++ function I can used? Thanks!

Nacho

[Joe Woodbury]

There are two solutions; one is to get all the files in the directory using findfirst/findnext and then delete them. The other solution is to use the SHFileOperation. Oh, I suppose you could spawn cmd and delete that way, but it's lame.

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[Zac Howland]

Nacho Chip wrote:

Any standard ANSI C++ function I can used?

No. This type of operation will be OS dependent, and will be very different on each system. For Windows, you can use the FindFile API or the Shell interfaces to accomplish this.

If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac

[Hamid Taebi]

See

WIN32_FIND_DATA      find;

	SetCurrentDirectory("c:\\temp");
	HANDLE handle=FindFirstFile("*.*",&find);
	while(FindNextFile(handle,&find)!=0)
		DeleteFile(find.cFileName);
or you can use from //SHFileOperation(...);
	FindClose(handle);

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