Re^3: File::Path::rmtree: What am I not grokking?

What’s the point? If you rmtree('alpha') it will recurse into all the subdirs anyway.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^4: File::Path::rmtree: What am I not grokking? by jkeenan1 (Deacon) on Nov 03, 2005 at 15:55 UTC
The point was that I didn't want to hardcode `alpha`. I wanted to supply the same, single variable to `rmfromtop` as I did to `mkpath`. And just as `mkpath` was creating a whole tree, I wanted a function to delete that same whole tree. Since this will be used in a testing context, I'm going to be creating the tree, verifying that I created it, deleting the tree, and verifying that I deleted it. jimk	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: File::Path::rmtree: What am I not grokking? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 03, 2005 at 18:46 UTC
But you have to `splitdirs` anyway in order to remove all components, so why not simply `rmtree +( splitdirs $partial )[ 0 ]`? That has the exact same effect. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]