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Hello, I have recently been able to delete files using this code(With the aid of others from the forum) And I was wondering how you can change this, to suit deleting a folder

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{


// Get a pointer to the file name/path
const char * pFileToDelete = "c:\\Progra m Files\\myfile.t xt";

// try deleting it using DeleteFile
if(DeleteFile(p FileToDelete ))

{
// succeeded
std::cout << "Deleted file" << std::endl;
}
else
{
// failed
std::cout << "Failed to delete the file" << std::endl;
}
std::cin.get();
return 0;
}

Thank you
Feb 18 '08 #1
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weaknessforcats
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I did a Google on "deleting a folder" and "Windows" and got 108,000 hits.

Maybe you could read some of these pages.
Feb 18 '08 #2

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