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Jun 4th, 2003
I've made a program that creates a log of the activities performed in it, for easy reference for the user. But I want the program to automatically delete the file after the program is shut down. What is the syntax and how do I go about doing it?
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If you're writing a Windows application, try the DeleteFile function available in winbase.h:

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  1. BOOL DeleteFile(
  2.   LPCTSTR lpFileName   // pointer to name of file to delete
  3. );
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the program was written to run in command prompt/dos, and I still can't get it to work. any other suggestions?

Say I tried to do it with windows, where would I specify the file I wanted to be deleted with the syntax you just gave me?
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To delete a file use the C++ remove() function.
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Oh, goodness gracious! I guess it would be most appropriate to make this my 667th post then.
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Are those suppose to be horns? They look like donkey ears.
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An easy way to delete a file is to just call a system command from Windows. dafile.txt is the file you want to delete.


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  1. #include <stdlib.h> // needed to use system() function
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  3. int main() {
  4.      system("del dafile.txt");		
  5.      return 0;
  6. }
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Anyway, how would I do that so it deleted the file at closing?
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