[Israel.pm] Unlink v/s deletion

[Oron Peled]

On Monday 16 February 2004 16:01, Srikanth Madani wrote:
> I looked at the example from the man pages:
>     $cnt = unlink 'a', 'b', 'c';
> and did not realize that the single quotes are only for single characters.

No, they are not! You simply don't have variable interpolation within
the single quotes, so your '$pipe' stays literally what it is.

While we are at it, when printing error messages from failed system calls
(e.g: unlink), you may want to put $! in the message string so you'll get
meaningfull message (e.g: "Permission denied", "No such file or directory").
If you 'use English;' than the previous variable may be named $ERRNO.

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