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The Erase procedure attempts to erase a file given by the FileHandle.
The file name must have been assigned to the given FileHandle by the AssignFile routine. If the file does not exist, then the EInOutError exception is raised. | |||||||||
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| Example code : Create a simple file, then try to delete it twice |
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myFile : TextFile; begin // Let us open a text file AssignFile(myFile, 'Test.txt'); ReWrite(myFile); // And write a single line to it WriteLn(myFile, 'Hello World'); // Then close it CloseFile(myFile); // And finally erase it Erase(myFile); // If we try to raise it again, we'll raise an exception try Erase(myFile); except on E : Exception do ShowMessage('Cannot erase : '+E.Message); end; end; |
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| Cannot erase : File not found |