Hi. I'm writing a routine, part of which should examine a particular folder, look for .htm, .doc, or .pdf files older than 3 days old, and prompt the user to delete them if it finds any. If it doesn't find any, the user should get no prompt at all, and the rest of the routine should run.

Right now the code I have prompts the user each and every time it finds a file older than 3 days. Not quite what I want. Also, the final print command ('No files deleted...') is just there for testing purposes at this point.

Here's the code: 

my @htm_files = glob "C:/input/*.htm";
my @doc_files = glob "C:/input/*.doc";
my @pdf_files = glob "C:/input/*.pdf";

my @bigarray = (@htm_files, @doc_files, @pdf_files);

foreach my $file (@bigarray) {
    if (-M $file > 3) {
        print "Delete files older than 3 days?  [Y or N] \n";
        chomp ($cleanup = <STDIN>);
            if ($cleanup =~ /Y/i) {
                unlink $file;
                } else {
                print "\n      <<No files deleted at this time>>\n";
            }
    }
}

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