Newbie Deleting a file

FILE *myscene;
myscene = fopen("Doiv","wb");
fwrite(Scene, 1, 200, myscene);
fclose(myscene);

How does one go about removing/deleting the file i create..

I believe Remove is the option...
But i can't get it to work at all...

remove(Doiv); (tells me it's undeclared in this function)
How does one declare it in this function?

And why does writing the file, not need declaring also?

remove(myscene); Also doesn't work......

Anyone?

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remove takes a string of the pathname, so in your case:

Code:

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remove("Doiv");

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Presuming it's in the current working directory.

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Originally Posted by NoUse

You would use:

Code:

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remove(myscene);

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No you wouldn't.

Yea, you're right. I probably should have reviewed the function. I assumed it would just need the file pointer.

I just tried it again, and it compiles without problem..
as a commandline .exe, But does not give the same error.....

Yet the test object is still not deleted.... So it just ignores it.

If i add the almost identical code, to my plugin (a .dll)
It instantly crashed, my plugin and it's host.....

It gave me a warning not an error.....
[Warning] passing arg 1 of `remove' from incompatible pointer type.

This time i moved it, in case it was deleting the file, before i was finished calling it,

So i moved it down a few lines.
and it does not crash, but still does not delete the file...
So i'm bloody confused. Anybody, weird....


EDIT: Thanks the direct name worked.... Thanks!

I think as a C Newbie, that's plain stupid..... :)
I'd rather just use remove(myfile); As that is far more logical..
But it works..... Well it deletes my object before it's used it...
But i'll figure that out i guess, but an if or else statement should fix that.... Oh i hope...

If you get that warning, you are not passing a string as I posted above.

What is your remove line now?

remove("Doiv");
Does indeed work, (thankyou)

It was the remove(myfile); that would sometimes cause the warning....



What is the fastest way to make sure i only delete the file
after it's usage.....

For example, the commandline test works fine......

But my .dll, actually writes an object file, and then manipulates
that file, and then should remove it.....

However in the .dll, the remove statement, is read before my local-evaluate commands (specific host functions).... So the plugin failes, because it's deleted directly after it's created, i'm guessing because the C compiler, works this way......

Code:

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FILE *myfile;
myfile = fopen("Void","wb");
fwrite(Obj, 1, 400,  myfile);
fclose(myfile);

local->evaluate( local->data, "LastItem" );

remove("Doiv");

  return AFUNC_OK;

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What's the easiest method, to make sure it's only deleted
after the local-evaulate command is issued first.....

Thanks...

In the above code, the remove statement is after the local->evaluate call. The remove statement will only execute after local->evaluate finishes. If that function somehow sets in motion operations that continue to occur after the function finishes, then of course remove() may be called before the end. This is specific to whatever bizarre platform/environment you're using.

As an aside, on most operating systems, a remove call will only actually delete the file once any process that has it open has finished with it.

mktemp?


Quzah.

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Originally Posted by quzah

mktemp?


Quzah.

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mktemp is a fairly non-portable BSD derived function, and the implementation tends to be broken.

Doh!

No that works fine now, thanks again everyone....
I'd kept an unintentional remove(myfile) earlier in my code..

Thanks again.....

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Originally Posted by cwr

mktemp is a fairly non-portable BSD derived function, and the implementation tends to be broken.

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I wasn't paying attention to what section it was in the book I looked it up in for reference. :P


Quzah.