On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 10:14 , Connie Chan wrote:
> @filelist = &your_search_script_result(); > for (@filelist) { unlink ($_) } now you're showing some step forward.... my complements! for those who are wondering why beginners are here, it's to learn and pass along that which they have learned! two Nits: you might want to think in terms $filelist = your_search_script_result($dir, $recurse, $pattern, $suffix); unlink($_) for @$filelist ; the former allows your function to be more readily re-usable - in that it would allow both $filelist = your_search_script_result( $dir, 0, undef, $suffix); so that it would go after all files that end in $suffix that exist in $dir, without recursing down through any sub directories. { yada-yada-yada....} the second nit is that it appears that passing a reference to the array seems to be reasonably mo-betta.... YMMV. ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]