Re: unlink($ful) does not delete

[tcf03]

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
my $thef = "f";
my $ful="../../../".$thef;
print "$ful\n";
unlink($ful) or die "unable to delete $ful: $!\n"

Works fine for me. try printing param(f) and $ful before you unlink.

[daithimcc]

No - that works fine for me if "f" was the name of the file. The name of the file is passed to the script from the browser:www.mydomain.com/..../ dfil?f=abcde
In the script I then pick up the name of the file with
$thef=param('f');
when I print $thef everything appears the same abcde as if I had written $thef="abcde"; printing $ful gives the path exactly as it should be - it can even be recognised by -e $ful but it is not recognised by unlink($ful)
So although they appear identical strings unlink recognises it when $thef was manually set $thef="abcde" but not when set using the parameter $thef=param('f'); even though they look identical and behave identically for -e
I even tried chomp($thef);

Thanks again for any help!

[tcf03]

Did you try printing them? Can you post more of the code itself?

also adding

  use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

to the top of your program may prove useful.

update

And then in your code: die unless param('f');