Deleting a file in c code

Posted 3-Nov pm Mojtaba Setoodeh. Add a Solution. Hamed Moezzi Azimi 5-Nov pm. Top Rated Most Recent. Accept Solution Reject Solution. Copy Code. Posted 3-Nov pm Fredrik Bornander. Posted 4-Nov am rashin ghodratzade. Hi, If you are on Win32, the official way to do it is to mark it to be deleted on reboot, and ask the user to reboot. Posted 4-Nov pm fkassaie.

Posted 4-Nov am Suk nta. Posted 4-Nov pm M. Add your solution here. To delete a file using C language, use remove function of stdio. Please not that when file is deleted using remove function, the file will not be moved to Recycle Bin or Trash, but the file is deleted permanently. But if the file is not present in the current directory, you may have to provide relative path or absolute path to remove function. Also, note that the file name should include the extension as well.

I just found out how to manually delete programs. However, the folder CA that is contained in my program files will not delete. I give permission and then it says please try again. I do not use this program due to the large amount of issues and it is preventing me from downloading a current antivirus program. Please help. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

Then a simple test is done to see if the given name function parameter searchname matched the record member name that just have been read. If the two strings are matching a message is printed on the screen and the variable found is set to 1.

If the while loop has ended and there is no match found found will still be zero a message is printed that says that there are no records found with that name. The last steps we then have to do is: closing the files, deleting the old file that is still containing the records with a certain name and renaming the temporary file tmp.

This way we have a file without certain records. Note: we could have given a example where everything is read in memory, then the record is removed in memory and the result is then written back over the file. This would be a smart option if the file does not contain large amounts of records. The delete and rename method will also work for a very large file which contains large amounts of records as long as you have enough disk-space of course.

In the main function the other functions we just described are called and for each call some error handling is done perror is used to print a message in case of an error. Three records are displayed. Last action is displaying the records in test. That is all for this tutorial.