Hello Monks! I have written a program to compare the file counts between two folders and once matched the files in the second folder are zipped and the ones in the first folder are deleted. My program functions as expected except for the deleting of files in the second folder. Could you please help. This is what I have so far

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES );



my $directory1 = 'C:\Perl\test';

chdir($directory1) or die "Can't chdir to $directory1 $!"; 
opendir(DIR1, $directory1) || die "Couldn't opendir: $!\n";  

my @files = grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..' } readdir DIR1;

my $a =0 ;


foreach(@files){
    $a++;
}



my $directory = 'C:\Perl\compress';

chdir($directory) or die "Can't chdir to $directory $!"; 
opendir(DIR, $directory) || die "Couldn't opendir: $!\n";  

my @files2 = grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..' } readdir DIR;

my $b=0;
my $c=0;

foreach(@files2){
    $b++;
}


# while loop to try every min for 3 mins if any the file counts a & b 
+don't match
while($c < 3)
{
    if ($a eq $b)
    {
        compress(\@files2);
        unlink @files2;     #delete files in the compress folder after
+ compression is complete
        unlink @files;      #delete files in the test folder;
        $c=3;
    }
    else
    { 
        print "Count Compare Failed!\n";
        sleep 60;
        @files2 = grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..' } readdir DIR;
        $b=0;
    }
    $c++;
    foreach(@files2){
            $b++;
    }
}

# subroutine to compress the files into one

sub compress { 
   my @add_array=@{ $_[0] };  
   my $obj = Archive::Zip->new(); # new instance
   foreach (@add_array) {
      $obj->addFile($_); # add files
   }
   if ($obj->writeToFileNamed('testing.zip') != AZ_OK) { # write to di
+sk
      print "Error in archive creation!";
   } 
   else {
      print "Archive created successfully!";
   }
    
}

closedir(DIR1);
closedir(DIR);
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