FileDelete

Syntax

FileDelete(filename);

filename

A string specifying the path and name of the file.

Description

Deletes the specified file. See also IoErrText.

Returns

A number indicating whether the file was successfully deleted.

	The file was successfully deleted.
>0	Failure. This value can be sent to IoErrText which will return an error text for the failure.

Example

//Delete myfile.txt and store the returned value in $err

$err = filedelete("myfile.txt");

//If the action was unsuccessful, pass the error value
//to ioerrtext and store the error text returned by
//ioerrtext in $errtext. 
//Send the error text to the log file

if(num($err)!=0)
{
    $errtext=ioerrtext($err);
    log(0,"Errortext "+$errtext);
}