How to remove a file in C program?

Question

How do I close a file and remove it?

I have the following code:

FILE *filePtr = fopen(\"fileName\", \"w\");
...

Now I want to close

Answer 1

You do not need to fopen a file to remove it. But, in linux, if you remove an fopened file, it will be deleted only after closing it. You can still read/write to it.