Thread: deleting files?

Hi people,
just started programming bout a week ago and need a little help with some file i/o
what i have done so far is use fstream to open save and then close a file in which the user types the filename and its contents but i have no idea how to delete the file any help??

cheers in advance

You can use remove(char* filename) to do this task.

thanx for the help but i cannot remove(char* filename) to work
here is some of my code

Code:

	ofstream file;
		file.open(fileName);

		file<<firstName<<"\n"
			<<lastName<<"\n"
			<<phoneNumber<<"\n"
			<<mobilePhone<<"\n"
			<<emailAddress<<"\n";

		file.close();

	return menu();
} 

int deleteContact()
{
	file.remove("blah.txt");

	return menu();
}

i know i am useing it totaly wrong, any help on how to implament it?

thanx

remove() is not a ofstream member function, if you include <cstdio> it will be a global function so you can call it like this -

int deleteContact()
{
remove("blah.txt");

return menu();
}


assuming that blah.txt is in your current directory. Otherwise you'll have to include the full path for the file.

cheers Zen that work perfectly
yet another question how can i make cin.getline to terminate when the user presses enter with out haveing to make them type the ternial_char first.

cheers

The default behavior of getline is to terminate when a newline is entered. I'm not sure what you mean by ternial_char, but is quite easy with i/o to leave characters in the buffer that affect how getline works. Post the code.

Ooops my bad. I neglected to say that remove() is a regular c function. I'll be more specific next time.