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S3 Delete Bucket

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Demonstrates how to delete a bucket.

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Ruby
require 'chilkat'

success = false

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

# Insert your access key here:
http.put_AwsAccessKey("ABQXXABC83ABCDEFVQXX")

# Insert your secret key here:
http.put_AwsSecretKey("XXXXYYYYabcdABCD12345678xxxxyyyyzzzz")

http.put_KeepResponseBody(true)

success = http.S3_DeleteBucket("chilkattestbucket")

if (success != true)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    # Also examine the error response body from AWS:
    print http.lastResponseBody() + "\n";
else
    print "Bucket deleted." + "\n";
end