What do you mean at closing? When you close your program? If so, just make it one of your last lines.

Use the remove function ..ok BOB.. but how do i use it ,, syntax etc...
please bob, it's an emergancy.

In header <cstdio>:
int remove(const char* filename)

Probably too late for you by now, as you needed an answer urgently. I hope you had the sense to look up remove() in your C++ book, or do a Google search.

you can register a function that will be called when the program terminates with the atexit() function. this func could tehn call remove() on the file.

what is the difference between remove and del ?

Go easy on me. I'm trying to teach myself c++ and its a slow go for me. Just me, my book, and Google.

FYI... im wanting to write a program that goes through and deletes files of a certain extension. (sort of a janitor utility)

some proprietary software makes these files and will eventually fill up a hard drive. i just want a simple program I can run to clean the directory.

Thanks