How to close a file's handle using its path?

[TheDcoder]

I want to do this because I have a program which opens certain files randomly, When I delete them, they don't get deleted completely until I close the file's handle...

 

Thanks in Advance, TD

[funkey]

Just store the handles of the random filenames in an array and close the handle when need to delete.

Edited June 2, 2015 by funkey

[TheDcoder]

Anyway without storing the file handles?

 

P.S Please fix your signature

[TheSpannish]

What about process close? I mean if you are executing a .txt just close the process notepad

[TheDcoder]

@TheSpannish I am not trying to close notepad

[BrewManNH]

How are you opening the files? If you're using FileOpen, then the only way to properly FileClose them is with AutoIt's file handle that is returned from the FileOpen. Otherwise you're just killing the process and that won't unlock the file. There are ways to do it, can't recall off the top of my head the process to do it, but keeping track of your opened files is just good programming and something you should embrace.

[SadBunny]

I see literally no downside at all to storing the handles in an array... Care to elaborate on why that is not an option? Maybe there's a better approach altogether... 

/edit: I mean... You're opening the files, so you're getting the file handles anyway. So all you're doing is ignoring them instead of putting them in an array. Only reason to ignore them instead of keeping them in an array may be worries about performance impact, but impact on memory and speed should be negligible compared to the impact of lots of file system interaction...

And of course, what Brew says, it's just a good idea in general to keep track.

Edited June 3, 2015 by SadBunny

[TheDcoder]

Thank you all, I decided to store them in an array