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Subject: Re: Problem with file i/o

Author: James Swafford

Date: 14:42:57 05/08/99

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On May 08, 1999 at 15:11:01, James Robertson wrote:

>I have several questions about files in MSVC: how do I delete files? Also, is
>there a convenient way to tell a file's size with ifstream/ofstream? I have been
>doing this:
>
>ifstream in;
>in.open(file_path);
>in.seekg(0, ios::end);
>int size = in.tellg();
>
>But, this seems really nasty. Is there a better way?
>
>James


To delete a file, just use the 'remove' command:

remove("file.ext");

I'm not sure how to tell a file's size...

--
James



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