Hmmm ... I wonder if glob can handle {}'s ... glob "C:/input/*.{htm,doc,pdf}". Not really that important, I suppose.

You probably want to grep here...

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

# only keep the files more than 3 days old.
my @oldfiles = grep { -M $file > 3 } (@htm_files, @doc_files, @pdf_fil
+es);

# if we have any such files...
if (@oldfiles)
{
  print "Delete files older than 3 days?  [Y or N] \n";
  chomp ($cleanup = <STDIN>);
  if ($cleanup =~ /Y/i) {
    unlink foreach @oldfiles;
  } else {
    print "\n      <<No files deleted at this time>>\n";
  }
}
else
{
  print "\n   No files to delete\n";
}

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