I'm new to Perl and the only real experience I've had with it has been self-taught through a beginners book. I recently was asked to do a script that will perform certain functions in a windows directory, and was hoping I could get a little help. Here's what its supposed to do:

Monitor and scan a windows directory daily and see if any files are older than 5 days. If they are then the script should log the files in a blank text document and delete them from the directory.

You can see what I have so far on my public scratchpad. I'm sure it looks pretty bad, but like I said, I just started learning. I could still use some help with the pieces I'm missing, as well as any clean up I can perform. Any advice you guys can give me would be much appreciated. Thank you.

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