No - that works fine for me if "f" was the name of the file. The name of the file is passed to the script from the browser:www.mydomain.com/..../ dfil?f=abcde
In the script I then pick up the name of the file with
$thef=param('f');
when I print $thef everything appears the same abcde as if I had written $thef="abcde"; printing $ful gives the path exactly as it should be - it can even be recognised by -e $ful but it is not recognised by unlink($ful)
So although they appear identical strings unlink recognises it when $thef was manually set $thef="abcde" but not when set using the parameter $thef=param('f'); even though they look identical and behave identically for -e
I even tried chomp($thef);

Thanks again for any help!

In reply to Re^2: unlink($ful) does not delete by daithimcc
in thread unlink($ful) does not delete by daithimcc

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