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How do I delete a file with a leading space?

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From

19/08/1999 21:57:24

Ed Rauh
Trumbull, Connecticut, United States

To

19/08/1999 17:02:17

Jim Philippi
Missoula County
Missoula, Montana, United States

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Forum:

Visual FoxPro

Category:

Coding, syntax & commands

Title:

Re: How do I delete a file with a leading space?

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Thread ID:

00255531

Message ID:

00255671

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20

>I have a situation where there are some files created that have a leading space, eg. " JUNK.DBF". Is there a way to delete this file programmaticly using VFP5? Delete file, !del, and RENAME seem to have no affect. I am able to delete them with Explorer but I don't want the user to have to deal with it.
>
>Thanks!

Have you tried using VFP's ERASE with name expansion? Try something like:

ERASE (FULLPATH(' JUNK.DBF'))

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