disclaimer: C++ newbie here... I want to be able to have my code delete a file from the current directory. For example: char x[9]="file.exe"; system("del" x); The reason I dont just put system("del file.exe") is because I want to be able to come back and change the file name later without having to search my code for every instance of it. Anyone know how I can do this? Thanks!

I know how I would do it using the Windows API, but not to sure about standard C++. but.. I believe you can use: char delFile[50]=""; char x[9]="file.exe"; sprinft(delFile, "del %s", x); system(delFile); If you need to delete files with REALLY long paths you would need to make the character array delFile larger.

There is an ANSI function specifically for deleting files: int remove(const char* filename) from stdio.h You may also look into unlink. Either returns 0 on successful deletion of the file.