Hello
I am very, very new to this C++, and i have been working on something that could help us with something, but thats a long story...
Anyways, i want the program to first delete a file then wait some time, and then delete another file. I got it to delete the files i wanted it to delete, but only if the files are in the same directory as the exe. I can't get it to wait either, i have been looking all around the internet, but i can't find anything that works. Can anyone help me plz?
thx :)
To delete files in other directories, you must provide path information.
An absolute path doesn't care where your executable is:
C:\WINDOWS\Media\chimes.wav
/usr/bin/env
(Don't delete either of those, btw.)
A relative path is relative to the current working directory (which may or may not be where your executable is -- it is wherever the user started your program from).
images\snoopy.png
../objs/myprog.o
If you started in (Windows) "D:\MyStuff" then the absolute path would be "D:\MyStuff\images\snoopy.png" or (Unix) "~/myprog/bin" then the path would be "~/myprog/objs/myprog.o".
To delay, use the Sleep() on Windows, or the usleep() function on POSIX.
Hope this helps.
Yes, thx alot. it works now :)
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