| Dir.Delete | Part of Dir module |
| Syntax | Dir.Delete (directoryPathName : string)
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| Description | Dir.Delete is used to delete the directory specified by the parameter directoryPathName. This is the equivalent of doing a rmdir in DOS or UNIX. On the Macintosh, it removes a folder. Dir.Delete will fail if it attempts delete a directory that has files in it.
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| Details | If the Dir.Delete call fails, then Error.Last will return a non-zero value indicating the reason for the failure. Error.LastMsg will return a string which contains the textual version of the error.
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| Example | This program deletes the directory called information.
Dir.Delete ("information")
if Error.Last = eNoError then
put "Directory delete"
else
put "Did not delete the directory."
put "Error: ", Error.LastMsg
end if
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| Example | An example demonstrating the use of several of the Dir subprograms
is available. In this example, a directory is created, a file is written
to the directory, an attempt is made to delete the directory, the file is
deleted, and then the directory is deleted. This example demonstrates the use of Dir.Change, Dir.Current, Dir.Create, and Dir.Delete.
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| Status | Exported qualified. This means that you can only call the function by calling Dir.Delete, not by calling Delete.
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