Removing a file

I created a program to encrypt/decrypt files. The problem is, it creates a new file for the encryption program.

Now I want to remove the unencrypted file.

I tried:

Code:

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std::remove(d.filename);

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But it doesn't work. Is there a way to remove a file when you're using a variable as the filename?

yes...
but your sample has missing parts - so it is hard to decide what is your problem

1. what type is d.filename? if it is std::string you probably need c_str() to pass const char* to remove
2. have you closed the file before trying to remove it?

unlink()? (edit: Ah, or remove() Was looking in the wrong section...)

And note that on most computers, removing a file just removes the links to the data - the actual data itself is not cleared until something else overwrites it.

Thanks vart. I got it to work:

Code:

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  source.close();
  std::remove(d.filename.c_str());

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