Kill

Deletes files from a disk.

Syntax: Kill pathname

pathname
required String expression that specifies one or more file names to be deleted. The pathname may include the directory or folder, and the drive.

Kill supports the use of multiple-character (*) and single-character (?) wildcards to specify multiple files.

An error occurs when Kill is used to delete an open file.

Note BETA 1005

Each of these failures of Kill raises run-time error -2147467259 (&H80004005), where VB6 raises the numbered error shown:

  • 53 (File not found) when no file matches pathname;
  • 75 (Path/File access error) for a read-only file;
  • 55 (File already open) for a file that is open.

Note

To delete directories, use the RmDir statement.

Example

This example uses the Kill statement to delete a file from a disk.

' Assume TESTFILE is a file containing some data.
Kill "TestFile"   ' Delete file.

' Delete all *.TXT files in current directory.
Kill "*.TXT"

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