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Utilities.deleteFile

Deletes a file from disk.

Syntax

static final boolean 
deleteFile(String fname)

Parameters

fname

The full path name of the file to delete.

Description

The deleteFile method deletes a file from disk. The argument is first converted by osSafeSpec , which will fix the pathname separators, if necessary.

Returns

Returns true on success, false on failure. Possible reasons for failure include:

• The path name does not exist.

• The path name does exist, but you do not have permission to delete it.

Example

The following line deletes the file at Windows pathname c: emp ext.txt even though the given pathname uses UNIX-style pathname separators.

Utilities.deleteFile( "c:/temp/test.txt" );

See Also

osSafeSpec

 

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