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Recursively delete a group of files and subdirectories
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Use the following routine do delete all files matching a certain mask within
a given directory.
If you set the third parameter to TRUE, subdirectires are scanned/ deleted also.
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{**Summary ====================================================== NAME : DeleteFiles PARAMS : const Path, Mask : string; recursive : boolean RETURNS : - PURPOSE : delete several files with joker. Optional recursive = search in subdirectories. EXAMPLE : DeleteFiles ('c:\temp\', '*.txt', True); UPDATES : NOTES : CODED : PT 15.10.96 ===============================================================*} procedure DeleteFiles (const Path, Mask : string; recursive : boolean); var Result : integer; SearchRec : TSearchRec; begin Result := FindFirst(Path + Mask, faAnyFile - faDirectory, SearchRec); while Result = 0 do begin if not DeleteFile (Path + SearchRec.name) then begin FileSetAttr (Path + SearchRec.name, 0); { reset all flags } DeleteFile (Path + SearchRec.name); end; Result := FindNext(SearchRec); end; FindClose(SearchRec); if not recursive then exit; Result := FindFirst(Path + '*.*', faDirectory, SearchRec); while Result = 0 do begin if (SearchRec.name <> '.') and (SearchRec.name <> '..') then begin FileSetAttr (Path + SearchRec.name, faDirectory); DeleteFiles (Path + SearchRec.name + '\', Mask, TRUE); RmDir (Path + SearchRec.name); end; Result := FindNext(SearchRec); end; FindClose(SearchRec); end; | ||
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