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Reference for unit 'sysutils' (#rtl)

DeleteFile

Delete a file from the filesystem.

Declaration

Source position: filutilh.inc line 135

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.

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.

FileCreate		Create a new file and return a handle to it.
FileExists		Check whether a particular file exists in the filesystem.

DeleteFile

Declaration

Description

Errors

See also

Example