On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 02:35 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
[email protected]> wrote:
...
I had a problem where this would randomly not
> delete the file and not give me the error print
> when delete failed:
>
> if not unlink $OldFileName {
> PrintRedErr( "Unable to Delete OldFileName <$OldFileName>\n" );
> }
>
Todd, what is your intent? Do want to delete an existing? Or not?
My choice in general is first determine if it exists. Something like this:
if $file.IO.e {
# do something with it...
}
else {
# it doesn't exist, so what do i want to do instead?
}
Of course $file could be a directory!
Whenever I want to deal with a collection of files and directories I use
the Raku module "File::Find" which helps make such things much easier.
Happy Rakuing!
-Tom (@tbrowder)
