From: Alia Amin <camin@...>
Date: 2002-11-08T02:05:33+09:00
Subject: Re: question about FILE::delete

Hello,

File.delete(filename) if FileTest.exists?(filename);

hth,
Alia


Daniel Schnell wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I want to delete file(s) and to catch the error if the file(s) don't exist.
>For that I can write the following code:
>
>    pattern = "c:/WinNt/*"
>    num = File.delete(pattern)
>    if (0 == num) then
>        printf("%s: could not delete file(s) %s\n", ARGV[0], pattern)
>    end
>
>The problem is that there is a runtime error, if there are no valid files.
>In the online documentation I can't find a hint about the File::delete()
>method throws an exception or not. If not how can I find out, if the files
>given by "pattern" do exist ?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Daniel.
>
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