>>>>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'))
>>
>>Nope, I get a file does not exist notice.
>
>Are you certain that the leading character is a space? I can get the following to work:
>
>cVar = 'this is dummy text'
>=STRTOFILE(cVar, ' JUNK.DBF')
>ERASE (' JUNK.DBF')
>
>with no problem under VFP6 with SP3 installed, at least under NT. I haven't tried it under Win9x.

Hi Ed,

Doesn't work with VFP5a version date 10/21/1997.

Jim

Jim Philippi

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