Delete Folder (C++)

[lumpybanana247]

anybody know how i could delete a FOLDER in c++?
i know to delete a file is

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
 
 
/* remove example: remove myfile.txt */
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main ()
{
  if( remove( "gay/gay.txt" ) != 0 )
  {
    perror( "Error deleting file" );
    cin.get();
}
  else
  {
    puts( "File successfully deleted" );
    cin.get();
}
  return 0;
}
 
 

but anybody know how delete a whole folder?

thanks

[ilikepython]

anybody know how i could delete a FOLDER in c++?
i know to delete a file is

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
 
 
/* remove example: remove myfile.txt */
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main ()
{
  if( remove( "gay/gay.txt" ) != 0 )
  {
    perror( "Error deleting file" );
    cin.get();
}
  else
  {
    puts( "File successfully deleted" );
    cin.get();
}
  return 0;
}
 
 

but anybody know how delete a whole folder?

thanks

Well, I guess you could delete it through your OS command line using the system function. What OS are you using?
If you don't want to use that, then try searching on Google for it.

[gpraghuram]

Hi,
there is a function called rmdir in stdlib.h which can help u to remove a directory.

Thanks
Raghuram

[lumpybanana247]

thanks to both of you. this is what i used (and it worked :-) )

#include <errno.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
 
 
/* remove example: remove myfile.txt */
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main ()
{
  if( rmdir("C:/Documents and Settings/Nathan/Desktop/gay") != 0 )
  {
    perror( "Error deleting file" );
    cin.get();
}
  else
  {
    puts( "File successfully deleted" );
    cin.get();
}
  return 0;
}
 
 

[lumpybanana247]

crap, that code ^^ only works if the directory is empty

[valverde]

I use this to delete folders even when they are full of files (in linux):

if (system("rm -r ./folder_name")==0)
cout << "folder succesfully deleted" <<endl;
else
cout<<"folder delete failed"<<endl;

rmdir is for deleting empty folders, and rm -r is to delete non-empty folders.

This "./folder_name" is of course when the folder is in the same directory of your application. When it is not, you can try using global route //import/home/... etct, or //tmp/... etc , depending on where your folder is. You can also use the relative path for files and folders, as you wish.

regards,

[JosAH]

@valverde
The -r flag stands for 'recursive', i.e. if the content of a directory (and its optional sub-directories) can be removed, the entire (now empty) directory is removed.

kind regards,

Jos