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    How to delete a file from Document directory?

    anskurtanskurt Member
    edited December 2013 in General questions
    I am making a level editor and the levels are stored in the Document directory. I want to be able to delete levels by pressing a button in the app. Right now i just erase all the data in the file by writing over it with an empty string, but is there a way to remove the file completely?
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    • ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
      edited December 2013 Accepted Answer
      Hello @anskurt
      You can try:
      os.remove("|D|filename")

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    • anskurtanskurt Member
      Thanks for another quick answer.
      Should have found that myself since it was in the documentation. :)
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    • bysregbysreg Member
      what if i want to delete all files in the documen directory ? i cant find function that at least tells me list of all files in a folder in the gideros reference manual
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    • ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
      @bysreg
      you can use Lua File System plugin:
      require "lfs"
 
function listdir (path)
	for file in lfs.dir(path) do
		if file ~= "." and file ~= ".." then
			local f = path..'/'..file
			print (f)
		end
	end
end
 
listdir (".")
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    • bysregbysreg Member
      @ar2rsawseen
      Thank you very much. I didnt notice this. the gideros manual on lfs is still empty(so i thought it was still unsupported)

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