Kill
Function Kill( filename )
Returns 1 on success, 0 on failure to delete filename.
Syntax Kill("Test.txt")
Remarks
Kill accepts any legal filename, including long filenames. Kill does NOT accept wildcard characters.
Kill will fail (return 0) in the following cases; The file is open, either by your script or another process. The file is set as read only by the operating system. The file does not exist.
See Also:
RmDir Name File and Directory functions
Example Script
' Clean up temporary files
STRING a
CHDIR("C:\TEMP")
a = FINDFIRST("*.tmp")
WHILE LEN(a)
IF KILL(a) THEN
PRINT "Removed "; a
ELSE
PRINT "Failed to remove "; a
ENDIF
a = FINDNEXT()
WEND
Script Output
(your results may be different)
Removed ~DF3941.TMP
Removed ~DF1542.TMP
Removed ~DF16D2.TMP
Removed ~DF346C.TMP
Removed ~DF14D4.TMP