deletefile

Arguments

filename

character strings interpreted as existing file names or not.

status

booleans %t on success or %f on error. It has the same size as filename.

Description

This function deletes a file filename. If file filename has been deleted, it will return %t else %f.

Examples

fd = mopen(TMPDIR+'/filetodelete.txt','wt');
mclose(fd);

if (fileinfo(TMPDIR+'/filetodelete.txt') <> []) then
deletefile(TMPDIR+'/filetodelete.txt')
end

deletefile(TMPDIR+'/notexistingfile')

deletefile(TMPDIR+['/notexistingfile' '/notexistingsecondfile'])

See Also

• mdelete — deletes file(s)
• rmdir — removes a directory

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