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deletefile

deletes a file

Syntax

status = deletefile(filename)

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

History

VersionDescription
6.0.0 Manage multi-dimensionnal arguments to remove multiple files at once.

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