To delete gunziped file

I am using gunzip to get the unzipped file from .gz file. I need that I get data from the unzipped file and don't get a copy of unzipped file. This is because unzipped file take a lot of space and I have 1000s of such file. i.e. I want to delete the unzipped file as soon as I get required data from it. OR Is there any way to get only required data from .gz file.

Thanks in advance Pooja

[Stephen23]

The basic function for deleting files is delete .

But it is not clear what you are actually trying to do. Are you doing this in a loop? In what form is your list of filenames? Do you generate the filenames on the fly? Where are the files located?

We need to know a bit more about what you are doing, in order to have an idea of how to solve your problem.

Please read this advice on how to write a question that will make it easier for people to help you, then edit your question to provide a minimum working example of your code.

[Pooja]

Thanks for replying. I tried to use delete. But it gave the following error

delete(file) Warning: File not found or permission denied

The part of the code is as follow

fil_nme='I:\GOES_DATA\G13\RETSD_MODMD_G13_GEC_2010171_21_gfsTfg_regWfg.gz; f=gunzip(fil_nme); file=char(f); f1=fopen(file,'r'); val=fread(f1,'float32'); delete(file);

gunzip(fil_nme) is creating the unzipped file with the same name in the same folder. I don't want to keep this file once I extract the required data. But delete(file) gave the error as

Warning: File not found or permission denied

Please help me to resolve the problem. I have already google it, but didn't get the answer. Thanks

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

You need to close the file before deleting it. Write

 fclose(file);

before

 delete(file);

[Pooja]

fclose('all'); delete(file); worked Thankyou very much

[Stephen23]

It is a good idea to keep fopen and fclose calls very close to each other, to avoid eaxctly this kind of problem: basically as soon as you write fopen you should write the following fclose too. And keep only the bare minimum amount of code in between, usually reading/writing whatever data is required.

Note that fclose('all') could cause problems if this function is called from another function that has and requires an open file...