For brevity's sake: 
my $found_any = 0;
...
sub search_all {
   unlink, $found_any++ if /.../;
}

# (repeat for search_none)

print "No files found!\n" unless $found_any;

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Make sense? You basically set a flag (a variable) if you find anything to unlink, and when your script is completed, check to see if this variable has a value, and if it doesn't, that means nothing matched, and you can alert the user to this fact. You can go the other way as well: 
if ($found_any) {
   print "$found_any files deleted.\n";
} else {
   print "No files were found to delete.\n";
}

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In reply to RE: RE: RE: Re: Still problems with recursive coding. by Fastolfe
in thread Still problems with recursive coding. by curtisb

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