Delete only one file from Folder Documents

[A Former User]

Hi,

is it possible to delete only one file from Documents with QDir? For example the file test.htm?
I only heared about deleting all Content in a Folder but not only one file.

Thank you,
Henrik

[Ratzz]

@HenrikSt.
Have you tried remove(const QString & fileName) ?

[panosk]

Hi,

Don't believe what you hear, just read the excellent docs :)
bool QDir::remove(const QString &fileName)

[panosk]

After your request in chat, here is a small sample how you can do this:

QDir dir(pathYouWantToSearch);
QDirIterator it(dir);
while (it.hasNext()) {
    QString currentFilePath = it.next();
    QFileInfo info(currentFilePath);         // Or simply replace these 3 lines
    QString fileName = info.fileName();      // with 'if (currentFilePath.endsWith("test.html"))
    if (fileName == "test.htm") {            // if you won't do anything more complex than that
        dir.remove(currentFilePath);          
        break;
    }
}

Edit: Maybe this is overkill if you always want to delete the same file from the same directory. Just use sth like this

QDir dir(dirYouWant);
dir.remove(fullPathToFile);

And even simpler:

QDir().remove(fullPathToTestHtm);

[A Former User]

@panosk
Thanks it works :)

Henrik