Hello

my programme is stored in ..Server\htdocs\cgi-bin with name glob.pl and is the following

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use LWP 5.66;
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$browser -> timeout(900);
use CGI qw(:standard);

            print header,
            start_html( -title=> 'Page 1' ,
            -bgcolor=>'#eeeeee'),
            p(h1({-align=>CENTER},'Trial'))
            ;


@files1 = glob ("../Results/*.txt");#collect all the files into an arr
+ay    
            foreach my $file (@files1)
            {
                print p("s $file");
                if ($file=~/(\S+)[\/](\S+)[\/](\S+).*/g)
                {
                    print p("to $3");
                    unlink("$3");
                    if (unlink($3) == 0) 
                    {
                        print "$3 deleted.";
                    } 
                    else 
                    {
                        print "File was not deleted.";
                    }    
                    
                    my $FileToWrite = "../Results/";
                    open (PearsonResult,">>$FileToWrite$3") || die "co
+uldn't open the file $!";
                    print PearsonResult ("test\n ");
                    close PearsonResult || die "can't close:$!";
                
                
                
                }
            }
            
    
                print end_html;

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the output when i run it in my browser is nothing. But when i create manually a txt file (with name Test1.txt) on ..Server\htdocs\Result i take as output

s ../Results/Test1.txt

to Test1.txt

Test1.txt deleted.

So i have two questions:

1.why the txt file is not created automated when i run the script from the begging without the need to created manually first and

2.why the txt file is not deleted finally when i run the programme since as i can see throught the glob and the if clause that i use it is stored in the variable $3 the Test1.txt.

When i run it for second time the script i see that it goes to Test1.txt and it writes the word test.But the third time it doesn't delete it and so i find for second time the word test.

Really many thanks in advance for your time.

In reply to Delete txt file in a previous file by stavros

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