Re^2: delete folder and its content with plain perl

[ytjPerl]

I am trying to use  my $result =  system ( 'rmdir /S /Q "$foldername"'); to delete the folder I created earlier in my script. But I got the error message that system cannot find the path. Do you know the problem here? I used both with quote and without. Thanks

[roboticus]

ytiPerl:

Inside single quotes, a variable is not expanded, so you're running "rmdir /S /Q $foldername".

Try changing it to:

my $result = system("rmdir /S /Q $foldername");

Of course, if you have backslashes or spaces in the $foldername variable, then you'll get other problems. That's why you might want to consider using the list version of the system command, like:

my $result = system('rmdir', '/S', '/Q', $foldername);

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

[ytjPerl]

my $result = system('rmdir', '/S', '/Q', $foldername);?

I used this, but as my $foldername path is d:\log_script\Archive I got error invalid switch - "log_script" , is that because "_" in my path?