Is there a C runtime file delete function?

[Angus Comber]

I have been looking at the fopen etc but cannot seem to find a way to delete
a file using C runtime functions.

Angus Comber
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[Christopher Benson-Manica]

I have been looking at the fopen etc but cannot seem to find a way to delete
a file using C runtime functions.

(That's because you can't, with standard C.)

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/dj3vande/clc/clc-welcome.txt
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html
http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/off-topic.html

 

[Richard Heathfield]

(That's because you can't, with standard C.)

Wrong.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

I have been looking at the fopen etc but cannot seem to find a way to
delete a file using C runtime functions.

Yes. It's called remove(), and it is declared in <stdio.h>

 

[Alan Balmer]

(That's because you can't, with standard C.)

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/dj3vande/clc/clc-welcome.txt
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html
http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/off-topic.html

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q19.16.html

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[Thomas Stegen]

(That's because you can't, with standard C.)

Then what does remove do?

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Then what does remove do?

Remove my sense of shame? *sigh*