close (BADSYMS);

if (-z BADSYMS ) {
        unlink "BADSYMS.out" or die ("Cant delete BADSYMS.out");
        print "hi";
}
        else { print "Bad symbols contained in BADSYMS.out\n"; }


##</code><code>##

Stat on unopened file <BADSYMS> at test.pl line 317

##</code><code>##

unless (open (BADSYMS, ">BADSYMS.out")) {
                die ("Can't open output file BADSYMS.out\n");
        }