Remove()

REMOVE ()

The function remove (), as the name suggests, is used to erase a file. The prototype of remove () as given in Hove () stdio.h can be given as

int remove (const char *filename);

The remove() will erase the file specified by filename. On success, the function will return zero and in case of error, it will return a non-zero value.

If filename specifies a directory, then remove (filename) is the equivalent of rmdir (filename). Otherwise, if filename specifies the name of a file then remove (filename) is the equivalent of unlink (filename). Look at the program given below which deletes the file "temp.txt" from the current directory.

#include <stdio.h>

main()

{

remove ("temp.txt");

return 0;

}

Note

You may specify the path of the file which has to be deleted as the argument of remove () .