Re: unlink($ful) does not delete

[tcf03]

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   Also I can test if the file exists, using the variable, -e $fnmi and I get true.

Its not obvious from your code where this variable comes from, but the existance of a variable and the contents are two different things. You'll get more mileage with something like:

if ( $fnmi eq 'someword' ) { # do stuff }

if ( $fnmi =~ /^someword$/  ) { # do stuff }

[daithimcc]

Also I can test if the file exists, using the variable, -e $fnmi and I get true.
Sorry that was a mistake
Should have been -e $ful
I believed that this was testing the existence of a file whose path is contained as a string in the variable.
As a matter of interest what is the significance of this construction:
( $fnmi =~ /^someword$/ )?
Thanks

[Rudif]

As a matter of interest what is the significance of this construction: ( $fnmi =~ /^someword$/ )?

 ( $fnmi =~ /^someword$/ ) is a pattern match, which happens to be equivalent to  ( $fnmi eq 'someword' ).

To understand why so, start reading about regular expressions and matching in perlrequick, and read more in perlretut and perlre.

Rudif

[daithimcc]

Thanks for the direction. That's the next thing I needed to find out about.