Hello,

If I'm understanding the problem correctly, you need to open a file named "$Form{han}.txt" which contains a list of file names you wish to delete; you want to delete these files as well we the file "$Form{han}.txt". If this is what you need, then follow the example: 

open (FNAMES, "<$Form{han}.txt") 
  or die "Cannot open $Form{han}.txt: $!\n";

while(<FNAMES>){ # for every line in the file.
  chomp; # remove trailing end of line character
  unlink $_ or die "Cannot unlink $_: $!\n";
}

close FNAMES; # close it before you unlink it.
unlink "$Form{han}.txt" 
  or die "Cannot unlink $Form{han}.txt: $!\n";

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Hope this helps,,,

Update: If you just need to delete the file "$Form{han}.txt" then all you need to do it follow mt2k's suggestion and: 

unlink "$Form{han}.txt" 
  or die "Cannot unlink $Form{han}.txt: $!\n";

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No need to open the file.

In reply to Re: help with my unlink by abstracts
in thread help with my unlink by Jaxonn

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