Hi Monks!
I am trying to figure it out what would be the best way to delete some image files from a directory if they match the names found prior in a database, here is what I have so far: 
...
while (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {

         my $del_1 = $row->{image_1} || '';
         my $del_2 = $row->{image_2} || '';
         my $del_3 = $row->{image_3} || '';
         my $del_4 = $row->{image_4} || '';

       }
      my $dir_to_open = "../../pics";

      opendir(DIR,$dir_to_open) || die("Cannot open directory !\n");
        @dir_contents= readdir(DIR);
      closedir(DIR);

      foreach $file (@dir_contents){
        if(!(($file eq ".") || ($file eq ".."))){
# I want to delete the files found in here if they match what  was fou
+nd above in the database call
 
         }
       }

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I would like to delete the files found if they match what was found above in the database call. Can anybody tell how I could do that? Thanks for the help!

In reply to Delete files if they match help! by Anonymous Monk

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