> -Original Message-
> From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:48 PM
> To: 'Jonathan E. Paton'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: silly unlink question..
>
>
> okay so this works:
>
> @files = ;
&
opendir/readdir/closedir to
do this, but I wanted to know why the second example doesn't work.
-Original Message-
From: Jonathan E. Paton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: silly unlink question..
> But can some
> okay so this works:
>
> @files = ;
> print "@files\n";
>
is obviously not a filehandle, or a
variable containing one. Hence it's a glob.
> but this doesn't:
>
> $search = "/home/*/*.txt";
> @files = <$search>;
> print "@files\n";
>
<$search> is treated as a named filehandle, since that i
> But can someone explain the <*.bak>? how does that work
> and what does it do? (and where is there a description
> of it's use)? Thanx
File glob. Returns an array of filenames which match the
regex /*\.bak$/ - basically those that end in .bak
This is a very Unix like feature of Perl, which
in the man perlfunc page we see:
unlink LIST
unlink Deletes a list of files. Returns the number of
files successfully deleted.
$cnt = unlink 'a', 'b', 'c';
unlink @goners;
unlink <*.bak>;
Note: "unlink" wil
