matlab.io.fits.deleteFile
Delete FITS file
Syntax
deleteFile(fptr)
Description
deleteFile(fptr)
closes and deletes an
open FITS file. This can be useful if a FITS file cannot be properly
closed.
This function corresponds to the fits_delete_file (ffdelt)
function
in the CFITSIO library C API.
Examples
import matlab.io.* srcFile = fullfile(matlabroot,"toolbox","matlab", ... "demos","tst0012.fits"); copyfile(srcFile,"myfile.fits") fileattrib("myfile.fits","+w") fptr = fits.openFile("myfile.fits","readwrite"); fits.deleteFile(fptr) fptrs = fits.getOpenFiles();