> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 22:16:38 -0400 (EDT), perlwannabe wrote:
>> I tried both the suggested methods without success. But, I mightuv
>> found a problem. I tried all of these methods with no success and
>> looked at the input file "listitems.txt" and found something
>> interesting when using a hexeditor. Each line ends with 0D0A, so in a
>> hex editor the previous file looks like:
> okay... in ascii the hex of 0d0a works out to character #13 and #10
> which works out to CR and LF.
>
> CRLF is the normal Carriage Return Linefeed that is used to separate
> lines on windows.
>
> It seems that everybody here pointed you into the right direction...
> but there seems to be something else wrong than the provided code (or
> your code for that matter). It seems that the data you use is the
> problem.
>
> To really find out what the problem is... you need to learn how to
> debug your code. A starting point would be:
>
> perldoc perldebtut<Return>
> or
> perldoc perldebug<Return>
>
> you should type that on the dos/command prompt in windows.
>
> Add the following lines to your program under the perl location line:
>
> use warnings;
> use diagnostics;
> use strict;
>
> It will check automatically for stractural errors that are often made
> and will give you (hopefully) meaningful error/warning messages.
>
> Another thing to do is to print everything to the screen.
>
> You define a variable? Print it.
> You use a variable? Print it before it's use and after it's use.
>
> BTW. Write at first in PSEUDOCODE and than translate it into perl. (I
> will add comments instead)
>
<SNIP, SNIP>
Oliver, thank you for the response. I did indeed comment every single
variable, but deleted it from my sample script for simplicity. I have
been wrestling with this problem for a while. I did run your code and got
the following error:
C:\testdir>perl testfile.pl
listitems.txt
item997
*item997*.*
c:/testdir/*item997*.*
Uncaught exception from user code:
unlink failed: at testfile.pl line 27, <FH> line 1.
You mention a "perl location line" what is that? Is there something I
have to declare for the program to work? I read something about
File::glob but I don't think that has anything to do with it.
BTW...I have also hard coded the location as follows:
$location = 'c:/testdir/*item997*.*';
unlink glob $location;
THIS WORKS!!! That is why this stupid problem is killing me. I can write
a script that will get me the location 'c:/testdir/*item997*.*' by using
variables, but when I try to unlink the program bombs. You can see by the
printout of your script that it is indeed returning
"c:/testdir/*item997*.*" for your variable $complete, but for whatever
reason, it won't unlink $complete. It doesn't even continue to process
the remaining lines in the file, it bombs after reading the first line of
'listitems.txt'
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