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Delete folders, subfolders and files easily

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20 Feb 2002 1  
This article shows you how to delete all the files and subfolders in a selected folder

Introduction

I Created this to show you how to delete all the files and subfolders in a selected folder including subfolders. It's very easy to understand and it's all by using the MFC (CFileFind, with some API functions)

void RecursiveDelete(CString szPath)
{
	CFileFind ff;
	CString path = szPath;
	
	if(path.Right(1) != "\\")
		path += "\\";

	path += "*.*";

	BOOL res = ff.FindFile(path);

	while(res)
	{
		res = ff.FindNextFile();
		if (!ff.IsDots() && !ff.IsDirectory())
			DeleteFile(ff.GetFilePath());
		else if (ff.IsDirectory())
		{
			path = ff.GetFilePath();
			RecursiveDelete(path);
			RemoveDirectory(path);
		}
	}
}

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