On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:00:07PM -0400, perlwannabe wrote:
> > Steve Grazzini wrote at Wed, 06 Aug 2003 23:38:00 -0400:
> >> my $pat = 'c:\testdir\*030977*.*';
^
That looks like trouble. Using forward slashes, as Janek has
done below, would have been smarter.
> >> foreach (glob($pat)) {
> >> unlink or warn "Couldn't unlink '$_': $!";
> >> }
> >
> > Or if you want to write it as a one liner,
> > you can exploit that unlink also takes a list as its arguments:
> >
> > unlink glob "c:/testdir/*030977*.*" or die "No files unlinked: $!";
That's not very good error-reporting. Maybe unlink failed
ninety-nine times and succeeded once...
> Neither of these worked.
Did they give any error messages?
> my $test = ("c:\\testdir\\testfile.txt");
> unlink glob ($test) || die "unlink failed: $!";
^^
And that's the wrong "or". If you use the alphabetical "or",
you'll at least get an error message.
unlink $test or die "unlink: $test: $!";
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Steve
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