Killing files

[doness]

I cannot made head or tail of the kill function - I have tried kill ($filename); and varieties of it, but the file remains on the system (actually in the cgi-bin - is this the reason why it does not delete?).

Thanks to all in advance

Don

[Nedals]

Try.. unlink("$filename"); to delete a file.

[Nedals]

Try.. unlink("$path/$filename"); to delete a file.

DOUBLE POST:
It said wait 60 sec before posting. What it didn't say was my post would go up anyway. MOST :o

[doness]

Originally posted by nedals
Try.. unlink("$filename"); to delete a file.

Thanks very much for your response - I will try this - my perl book does not give this instruction (or any other!)

[Nedals]

Pick up a copy of..

O'Reilly's Perl 5 pocket reference

It's a small reference book of the majority of the Perl instructions and it's only $7.00 in the US. You need to know some Perl, or other programming language, to get the most out of it.