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DeleteFile

Delete a file from the file system.

Declaration

Source position: filutilh.inc line 183

function DeleteFile(

const FileName: UnicodeString

):Boolean;

function DeleteFile(

const FileName: RawByteString

):Boolean;

Description

DeleteFile deletes file FileName from disk. The function returns True if the file was successfully removed, False otherwise.

Errors

On error, False is returned.

See also

FileCreate

Create a new file and return a handle to it.

FileExists

Check whether a particular file exists in the file system.

Example

Program Example31;
{ This program demonstrates the DeleteFile function }
Uses sysutils;
Var
 Line : String;
 F,I : Longint;
Begin
 F:=FileCreate('test.txt');
 Line:='Some string line.'#10;
 For I:=1 to 10 do
 FileWrite (F,Line[1],Length(Line));
 FileClose(F);
 DeleteFile('test.txt');
End.

Documentation generated on: May 14 2021

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