delfiles

Deleting files and directories by mask. Directories are deleted together with all files and subdirectories. Be really careful while using this function. For example, calling

delfiles( "c:\\temp", $FIND_DIR | $FIND_FILE | $FIND_RECURSE )

will delete all files and directories named temp on the disk N: including a search in all directories. In this case temp is considered a mask and since the flag $FIND_RECURSE is specified, the entire disk C: will be searched. If you just need to delete the directory temp with all its subdirectories and files, you should call

delfiles("c:\\temp", $FIND_DIR )

Calling

delfiles( "c:\\temp\\*.tmp", $FIND_FILE )

will delete all files in the directory tmp leaving subdirectories.

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Source lib/stdlib/ffind.g