Re: remove or _unlink using wildcard?

[yangyong]

Hi There,

I have been trying to delete several files by using wildcard using either
remove or _unlink, but non of them seems to work.

char temp_files[MAX_PATH];
strcpy(temp_files, "c:\\tmp*.*");
_unlink(temp_files); // doesn't work
remove(temp_files); // doesn't work either

Can someone please tell me how I delete several files using wildcard?

Thanks in regards,
Jess

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Jess Nielsen, HND/C
Systems Developer

"I don't want to be a pie, I don't like gravy!"

Windows: you can FindFirstFile, FindNextFile loop.

 

[Thomas Matthews]

Hi There,

I have been trying to delete several files by using wildcard using either
remove or _unlink, but non of them seems to work.

char temp_files[MAX_PATH];
strcpy(temp_files, "c:\\tmp*.*");
_unlink(temp_files); // doesn't work
remove(temp_files); // doesn't work either

Can someone please tell me how I delete several files using wildcard?

Thanks in regards,
Jess

Windows: you can FindFirstFile, FindNextFile loop.

But what if I'm not using windows?

O.P.:
The remove() function is for removing a single file.
You will need to use operating system functions for
deleting more than one file at a time.

You could use the system() function and specify
the OS command for deleting many files.

For more information about deleting many files,
please consult a newsgroup about your platform.
See the FAQs and Welcome.txt listed below.
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[Alexander Terekhov]

Thomas Matthews wrote:
[...]

But what if I'm not using windows?

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regards,
alexander.