Deletion of files

[aclamagna]

Visual Foxpro 7 SP1.

I have the following code:

store '12345678.tmp' to d_name
delete file &d_name
or
delete file (d_name)

Has anyone experienced this code acting like delete file *.*?

Thanks!

 

[mcoupal]

Have you tried the ERASE command?

store 'car.dbf' to lcTest
erase &lcmike

Seems to work work for me (deletes just one file) [Note: in VFP 6]

 

[mcoupal]

Or rather the code was:

store 'car.dbf' to lcTest
erase &lcTest

 

[DSummZZZ]

If your substitution results in an empty string, or more specifically, something that evaluates to '.tmp' or '.', some OS's will interpret that to *.* rather than empty.empty.


Dave S.