deleting files with small basic (help)

Question

Thank you for attention.

I'm newbie with small basic (programming at general).

So i wanted to make a program that deletes and replaces some files. 

For example: i was playing game where admin have rights to send you a virus and change value of one text document. So i wanted to make program that will delete that file( censuree.cfg)   and  replace (config.cfg)

I've tried to use file.deletefile(C:dir\dir\.censuree.cfg)  and so one with replace file command. but always something turns up to be wrong. also i got error for (c: . . .) ":" changes it color like it's used for other action, can someone explain me how can i use those commands right? code example would be nice. 

Thank you once again i'm looking forward to your answer!

Answer 1

TheGuxi,

Here is a code snippet that creates a file and then reads it back.  You need to have a temp folder on the c: drive for it to work.  Also, you can look at the intellisense to see how the various commands work.

'Code Snippet-to create a file and read it back
Text="This is my Text"
File.WriteContents("c:\temp\text.txt",text)
MyData=File.ReadContents("c:\temp\text.txt")
TextWindow.WriteLine(MyData)
TextWindow.Read()

JR

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JR

Answer 2

Now,

1) please don't write all in bold letters.

2) your path is wrong. It isn't (C:dir\dir\.censuree.cfg) it must be (C:\dir\dir\.censuree.cfg) .

3) This is a code to delete a file:

File.DeleteFile("C:\dir\dir\.censuree.cfg")

4) You must set your destination in "". Otherwise will the program think, that your destination is a variable.

Greetings

Timo

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Ich bin Neu

Answer 3

Thank you for your answers! it was very helpful.

By the way, if you have some time to answer me an other question that i forgot to mention.

Since that file (censuree.cfg) is placed at configuration files of that game, directory is not same. it depends on user where he creates a directory for that game. So can you help me with code for searching that file "censuree.cfg" and then terminating it?.

   

                                                                                                      I appreciate your support.

Answer 4

Now, you can locate the program directory with  "Program.Directory".

Now here are two examples.

1) This one show you the location of the program in a text window.

A = Program.Directory
TextWindow.WriteLine(A)

2) If you want to copy a file to the location of the program should u do the follow:

A = Program.Directory 
File.CopyFile("File Path of the file which has to copy", A) 
'If you want to copy the file in a folder at the program directory: 
B = Program.Directory + "\YourFolder" 
File.CopyFile("File Path of the file which has to copy", B)

I hope this is helpful for you.

Greetings

Timo

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Ich bin Neu

Answer 5

Hi there, TheGuxi!

I always use something like -> dir = Program.Directory + "\" when I need to locally save & read files for my programs. Files like images, sounds, etc.

But since you only want , I guess, a "config" file to store your program settings, there's an even easier way!

Use -> confFile = File.GetSettingsFilePath()

What it does is create a full path to a file which has the same name as your program, and also in the same folder, but w/ extension .settings.

Study this code to get what I mean:

dir = Program.Directory + "\"
confFile = File.GetSettingsFilePath()

TextWindow.WriteLine(dir)
TextWindow.WriteLine(confFile)
TextWindow.WriteLine("")

config["Player"]     = "TheGuxi"
config["MaxLives"]   = 5
config["Difficulty"] = "Hard"

File.WriteContents(confFile  config)  '  Save game config to a .settings file

config = ""                           ' Delete config

config = File.ReadContents(confFile)  'Reload it from .settings file

confCount = Array.GetItemCount (config)
confIndex = Array.GetAllIndices(config)

For index = 1 To confCount
  TextWindow.Write    ( confIndex[index] + " = ")
  TextWindow.WriteLine( config[ confIndex[index] ] )
EndFor

TextWindow.WriteLine("")

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Answer 6

Oops!

I think I haven't taken the time to read your request fully, TheGuxi.

If you believe that "censuree.cfg" resides in the same folder as the .exe, then you just need the code below to delete it:

dir  = Program.Directory + "\"
file = "censuree.cfg"
path = dir + file

File.DeleteFile(path)

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