Deleting all files in a directory

Hi,
Is it possible to use cffile to delete all files in a
directory. I have a function that creates a file in seperate parts
and places the finished file into a folder. But I need a check to
delete all files currently existing in said folder. I understand it
is possible to query a folder for existing files and then use that
query with cffile to delete the files... I just don't know how to
do it.
Thanks for your help

I am not postivie, but I think I recall learning that the
delete all function is prohibited via CF. You can delete specific
files, though.
If this is, in fact, the case, you could query the directory,
and then loop through the resultant query, deleting each file one
at a time.

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