You have to have all references to the object go out of scope. You can help this along by undefing the object reference.

Perl's garbage collection system uses reference counts--so when nothing points to a piece of data, it can be garbage collected. Note that I said can. AFAIK, there is no way to force the issue.

Check out this note in the perlobj document. Scroll up a bit to read the section on destructors. You might find it interesting, too.

TGI says moo