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Delete a file from the file system.
Source position: filutilh.inc line 183
function DeleteFile(  | 
const FileName: UnicodeString  | 
):Boolean;  | 
const FileName: RawByteString  | 
):Boolean;  | 
DeleteFile deletes file FileName from disk. The function returns True if the file was successfully removed, False otherwise.
On error, False is returned.
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Create a new file and return a handle to it.  | 
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Check whether a particular file exists in the file system.  | 
Program Example31; { This program demonstrates the DeleteFile function } Uses sysutils; Var Line : String; F,I : Longint; Begin F:=FileCreate('test.txt'); Line:='Some string line.'#10; For I:=1 to 10 do FileWrite (F,Line[1],Length(Line)); FileClose(F); DeleteFile('test.txt'); End.