From: Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@...>
Date: 2007-06-04T23:20:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Deleting a file - is there a less clumsy way to do this?

Ronald Fischer wrote:
> In my application, I often have blocks of code, where during preparation
> code, I need to make sure that certain files do not exist (in practice,
> this might be files left over from a previous run, which I didn't want
> to have erased earlier). Basically, I am doing something like this:
>
> if File.exist?(filename)
>   File.unlink(filename)
> end
>   

You can get it down to one line by doing this:

File.delete(filename) if File.exist?(filename)


That doesn't look so bad.  :-)


Jamey