I have existing zip files created by a vendor supplied application. It generates directories of data, in the Zip file, and the directory names are long strings of arbitrary characters. Even though the directories have files in them, I want to delete certain directories as well as the files included within. An example directory: 
"MyLabNotebook/Default/{A8C57B20-DFBD-492D-A4F7-B83D84D18CDA}"

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The POD for Archive::Zip says it can be done but, I've searched the web and PerlMonks.org and and have yet to come up with a way to do it. I've tried a few ways and nothing seems to work.

I would settle for just renaming the directory and then delete them manually if I had to, but despite what it says in the POD, I can't seem to rename them either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
  EigenFunctions
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In reply to Remove an existing, non-empty, directory re: Archive::Zip by EigenFunctions

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