Delete a file.

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

#include <stdio.h>

int remove(const char *filename);

Parameters for this facility are:

filename

const char *

The name of the file to be deleted

The remove() function deletes the named file specified by filename.

remove() returns 0 if the file deletion is successful, and returns a nonzero value if it fails.

"fopen"

"rename"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void)
{
	char filename[40];
	
	// get a filename from the user	
	printf("Enter the name of the file to delete.\n");
	gets(filename);

	// delete the file
	if (remove(filename) != 0) {
		printf("Can't remove %s.\n", filename);
		exit(1);
	}

	return 0;
}