Renaming file in C++ failing

[straygrey]

I have a C++ program running on Windows XP compiled with Visual C++ 6.0 containing the following code

if (remove(NewName) != 0)
{
errmsg = strerror(errno);
printf("Removal Error: %s\n", errmsg);
}


if (rename(FileName,NewName) != 0)
{
errmsg = strerror(errno);
printf("Rename Error: %s\n", errmsg);
}

and this fails, offering to send a message to Microsoft about the error of my ways.
The file I want to rename(FileName) does exist and the file I want to rename it to(NewName) does not and none of my error messages appear.
Please make suggestions on how I should fix this.

[Paul McKenzie]

I have a C++ program running on Windows XP compiled with Visual C++ 6.0 containing the following code

Show us a full program, not just a snippet of a larger program. We have no idea where those variables come from, how they're initialized, whether you've corrupted something else that's causing the problem, etc.

Also, you can easily test this by hardcoding the names of the files you want to delete. In other words, don't use variables, use the actual names of the file in the function call. Then if that works, then the problem is with your variables.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

[straygrey]

Name files as arrays not pointers.

[Paul McKenzie]

Name files as arrays not pointers.

Please show the real code, don't describe. You can corrupt programs using arrays as well as pointers.

Secondly, and again, did you try hardcoding the names into that code and seeing if the files are deleted?. That should have been the first thing to test.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie