Keep in mind that I'm fairly new to Perl myself, but...

...from what I know, the best course of action is to simply let the garbage collector do its work. Declare $MIMEobject as a lexical variable inside your if() { ... } block; once it goes out of scope and once there are no references to it anymore, the garbage collector will automatically reclaim it. There's no need to explicitely call DESTROY.

If you want to release it ASAP, you could also undef it.

May the more enlightened monks correct me if I'm wrong!

In reply to Re: Can I use the OO DESTROY method ... for a good cause by AppleFritter
in thread Can I use the OO DESTROY method ... for a good cause by ralphoweber

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