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The following shows my first dabblings into File::Temp, which are essentially pulled directly from it's POD.

The first 2 functions, WERX and WERX2, will successfully create their files in /tmp/. The second 2 funtions, DUNWERK and DUNWERK2, are supposed to also unlink their created file, but they don't work.

Far as I can tell DUNWERK does not create a file, and DUNWERK2 bombs with the following error:
undefined subroutine &main::unlink0 called at "this_script" line "unlink0..." <STDIN> chunk2.

What am I doing wrong here?
    cheers,
    Don
    striving for Perl Adept
    (it's pronounced "why-bick")

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# filetemptest.pl
# 2001-01-18

# File::Temp 0.11    Perl 5.00503
# File::Spec 0.82    Debian 2.2 "Espy"

use strict;
use File::Temp qw(tempfile );   #tempdir );

&WERX();
&WERX2();
&DUNWERK();
&DUNWERK2();

##################################################################
sub DUNWERK2 {
    my $template = 'dunwerk2XXXXXXXXXX';
    my $dir      = '/tmp/';
    my $path     = '/tmp/';
    (my $fh, my$filename) = tempfile($template, DIR => $dir);
    print "\nCreated filehandle $fh with filename $filename.\n\n";
    print "Press (almost) any key to unlink.\n";
    my $continue = (<STDIN>);
    unlink0 ($fh, $path) or die "  num4: Error unlinking file $path sa
+fely.\n";
    }
##################################################################
sub DUNWERK {
    my $template = 'dunwerkXXXXXXXXXX';
    my $dir      = '/tmp/';
    my $fh = tempfile($template, DIR => $dir);
    print "\nCreated filehandle $fh.\n";
    print "Press (almost) any key to continue\n";
    my $continue = (<STDIN>);
    }
##################################################################
sub WERX2 {
    my $template = 'werx2XXXXXXXXXX';
    my $dir      = '/tmp/';
    (my $fh, my$filename) = tempfile($template, DIR => $dir);
    print "\nCreated filehandle $fh with filename $filename.\n\n";
    print "Press (almost) any key to continue\n";
    my $continue = (<STDIN>);
    }
##################################################################
sub WERX {
    (my $fh, my $filename) = tempfile();
    print "\nCreated filehandle $fh with filename $filename.\n";
    print "Press (almost) any key to continue\n";
    my $continue = (<STDIN>);
    }
##################################################################
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