Hello monks, I'm trying to write a script that will look for all the files ending in .bak in a directory, but I am having a problem.

#!usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $count;
my $in;
my @files = glob '*.bak';

foreach my $file (@files) {
    $count++;
}

print "$count backup files found!\n\n";
print "Delete these files: (Y/N)? ";
chomp ($in = <STDIN>);

while ($in =~ /[^yn]/i) {
    print 'Y or N, please: ';
    chomp ($in = <STDIN>);
}

if ($in =~ /^y/i) {
    delfiles();
    print "$count files were deleted!";
}


sub delfiles {
    foreach my $file (@files) {
        open $file;
        unlink <$file>;
    }
}
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Whenever I try to run the program, strict complains about the symbolic references. Is there any way to bypass this on a Windows XP system? Thanks in advance.

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