Deleting files in a specified directory

[ara1]

I have read the help files and the references on this site, but something escapes me.

I want to delete files in a directory, before I update my data.

The code below searched the desired directory and find the files I want to delete.

When I extract the file name and use it with fdelete(), the files remain intact.

The results from the trace statement also below

File_path			= "G:\\DataFiles\\Amibroker-EOD\\DailyProcessedData\\";

//
//
if( Status( "stocknum" ) == 0 )
{
    List = fdir( file_path + "*.*", 1 );

//
//Delete old files
    for( i = 0; ( filename = StrExtract( List, i ) ) != ""; i++ )
    {
        filedelete	= fdelete( filename );
        _TRACE( "stoc#-del - i " + writeval( i, 1.0 ) + "  fname " + filename + "  status " + WriteVal( filedelete, 1.0 ) );
    }
}

[fxshrat]

You have not read documentation properly. Your file path is not AmiBroker installation folder.

Besides someone else had same issue as you already. So you have not used forum search (properly too)...

How to delete files in specified folder?

Your loop just lists file names but in order to make your fdelete command to work you need to add the actual path to those files! It’s like giving someone a list of goods to buy but you don’t tell him/her the actual route to get it from. So if you give AmiBroker just a few names to delete then it will search in its installation folder “…\AmiBroker\” only. But since nothing is there and your actual “goods store” is somewhere else nothing will happen. So here again another user error. Nothing mor…

So if files are not located in AB installation folder then you need to add path to fdelete but not just file name.