Venugopal P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once you close the file, memory for the file handle will be
> deallocated.
> You can unlink file using the original file name.
> unlink ("abc");
This doesn't answer my question. I wanted to know if it is
possible to remove a file using the FH name, not the variable name
referencing it. Please see my original post below.
Thanks again,
JW
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Westman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:02 AM
> To: perl_help
> Subject: Is this possible? (file handles)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to remove an empty file using the file handle and not a
> variable name or literal name referencing it. Something like
> this:
>
> 1 #!/bin/perl
> 2 use warnings;
> 3 use strict;
> 4 no strict 'subs';
> 5
> 6 open(F, "> abc") or die "cant create file: $!";
> 7 close(F) or die "cant close file: $!";
> 8
> 9 unlink(\*F) if -z (F);
>
> But, in this case, I get an error:
>
> $ runme.pl
> -z on closed filehandle F at ./x line 9.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Jeff
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