Hello Monks, The below program is having an issue with the unlink statement. All other components do what they are supposed to but its giving a 'Use of uninitialized value $_ in unlink (filename)' error for every file I am trying to delete. Purpose of script: collect all the data from .matched files and compile them into one and delete all the .matched files. Would appreciate any help with this. Thanks! 
use strict;
use warnings;

my $directory = 'C:\test';
chdir($directory) or die "Can't chdir to $directory $!"; 

opendir(DIR, $directory) || die "Couldn't opendir: $!\n";
my @files = grep(/\.matched$/, readdir(DIR));

my $destdir = 'C:\test';

if (@files) 
{
    foreach(@files){
        print $_, "\n";}
    open COMBINED, '+>>', "$destdir/combined.matched" or die "Can't op
+en file, combined.matched: $!";
    foreach(@files){
        open MATCHED, '<', "$_" or die "Can't open file, $_: $!";
        while(<MATCHED>){
        print COMBINED "$_";}
        close MATCHED;
    }
    close COMBINED;    
}

unlink(@files);
close $directory;

exit 0;

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In reply to Need help with unlink error by sowais

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