"Perlwannabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Still having problem with unlink.  My original problem began with deleting
> files from a list.  I seem to have fixed the problem reading the list but
> the unlink does not work.
>
> Here is the test script that I am working from:
>
> my $file = 'listitems.txt';
> open my $fh, $file or die "Cannot open $file: $!";
> while($Line = <$fh>) {
> chomp($Line);
> my $del = "*$Line*.*";
> my $complete = "c:/testdir/$del";
> unlink glob $complete or die "unlink failed: $!";
> }
>

Can you post more of the script? As it stands $fh is nothing.

Normally I would open a filehandle like so:

my $file = 'listitems.txt';
open(FH, "<" . $file) || die "Failed to open $file: $!";



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