>>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.
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>>Thanks!
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>This has turned out to be quite a long thread!
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>How about:
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>DEL ?junk.dbf
>or
>DEL *junk.dbf
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>at the command line. The question mark replaces one character. The asterisk replaces any number. Just be sure to do a:
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>DIR ?junk.dbf
>or
>DIR *junk.dbf
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>first to ensure the only files deleted is the one you want...

Therein lies the problem. There are 12 files with the first three characters being different and the other 5 being the same. Using a wildcard to delete the objectional file would take the other 12 good files with it. What seems to work best is something similar to this:

oFile = fCreate("C:\ junk.dbf")
fClose (ofile)

x1='!del c:\junk~1.txt'
&x1

contributed by Peter Cortiel of PC Software,Willington, Connecticut.