Deleting a file? Need help...

[cosmos22]

Hello, I am pretty new to C++, and I have a question:

I am, and have been using Dev-C++

I used this code, to delete a text file on my desktop. The first time around, it worked perfectly. Given the file example name of "dafile".


#include <stdlib.h> // needed to use system() function

int main() {
system("del dafile.txt");
return 0;
}


I compiled the file, and ran it, it worked. However, later on, I used the same code, ran it in the same conditions and nothing happened at all.

This system command worked fine the first time around, I have no idea what I have done wrong.

I have tried running this on other computers, in the same conditions, and nothing worked. Has it anything to do with the complied data? There was no errors when I checked it the second time...


Thank you.

[gpraghuram]

Hello, I am pretty new to C++, and I have a question:

I am, and have been using Dev-C++

I used this code, to delete a text file on my desktop. The first time around, it worked perfectly. Given the file example name of "dafile".


#include <stdlib.h> // needed to use system() function

int main() {
system("del dafile.txt");
return 0;
}


I compiled the file, and ran it, it worked. However, later on, I used the same code, ran it in the same conditions and nothing happened at all.

This system command worked fine the first time around, I have no idea what I have done wrong.

I have tried running this on other computers, in the same conditions, and nothing worked. Has it anything to do with the complied data? There was no errors when I checked it the second time...


Thank you.

The del command refers to the file in the current directory .
I hope that you are referring to the file in the desktop?
If you need you can use remove command also from the C code to remove the file
Raghuram