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musya
15 May, 2007 - 05:03 PM
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Hello everyone,

I want to make a program that reads in from a .txt file a list of file names and deletes fiiles from a directory with those names.

so i.e i do a lot of photo work, and people choose what phots they want, and its a lot of work deleting them by hand so when i get the email of the list of the ones that they dont want it will delete the ones they dont want from the dir.

so the .txt has names like.
IMG_7090.jpg
IMG_7091.jpg
etc..

and the program will delete IMG_7090.jpg and IMG_7091.jpg from a directory that the user specifies, with those files.

I am still learning C++ i have gotten to inheritance and polymorphism, but i have never covered fstream or anything like that yet, can someone please point me in the correct/right direction for doing this?

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15 May, 2007 - 08:45 PM
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You need to give us more information like what OS you are using, compiler to be used, any portability issues?,allowed to use external libraries etc.
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15 May, 2007 - 09:58 PM
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QUOTE(Xing @ 15 May, 2007 - 09:45 PM) *

You need to give us more information like what OS you are using, compiler to be used, any portability issues?,allowed to use external libraries etc.


I am open to any libraries, i have stlport5 and im running ubuntu/windows, but this app will need to work for windows. compiler is visual express unless i make it in ubuntu then gcc, but ill probably be using Visual Express on this one. no portability issues i would assume, i would just build the project to an executable and then run it, or unless i make a gui for it. hope this helps you to help me?
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16 May, 2007 - 05:40 PM
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anyone can help me?
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16 May, 2007 - 07:04 PM
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Musya,

You could try looking at this site about opening the file : http://computer.howstuffworks.com/c19.htm

And on deleting files try this forum post : http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=1001


These were easy enough to find, just google what you are looking for..

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