RE: Deleting files using wildcards

[Yves St-Hilaire <yves@adopt.qc.ca>]

On Wednesday, March 04, 1998 5:44 PM, Adolfo León [SMTP:aleon@serconet.com] 
wrote:
> How can I delete files using wildcards (*.dat,*.txt)

Hi,

Here is a littre piece of code which might helps you:

  WIN32_FIND_DATA dataFound;
  HANDLE fileHandle;

  fileHandle = FindFirstFile("*.dat", &dataFound); // or whatever your mask is
  if (fileHandle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
      DeleteFile(dataFound.cFileName);

      while( FindNextFile(fileHandle, &dataFound))
          DeleteFile(dataFound.cFileName);
  }

This will delete all *.dat files in the current directory. You can give a 
full path (or a relative one) to FindFirstFile.


Hoping this helps!

Yves St-Hilaire
yves@adopt.qc.ca