Re: unlink fails to delete files with perculiar names

Quote the argument of unlink.

my($no) = unlink "$targ" || carp "Unable to delete file $targ\n";
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Re^2: unlink fails to delete files with perculiar names by salva (Canon) on Nov 22, 2011 at 09:05 UTC
Putting the variable inside quotes is useless in this context.	[reply]
Re^3: unlink fails to delete files with perculiar names by stefbv (Priest) on Nov 22, 2011 at 09:18 UTC
~~I think it is not useless it's about dealing with spaces in file names.~~ Update: Sorry, made some further tests and I was wrong.	[reply]
Re^4: unlink fails to delete files with perculiar names by salva (Canon) on Nov 22, 2011 at 09:45 UTC
The only effect of putting some var inside quotes is to convert it into an string but Perl already does that for your implicitly most of the times. It only makes a difference in those rare cases where the internal representation of the variable determines what to do. For instance, the `given` construction in Perl 5.10 uses different comparisons when the internal representation of the scalar is a number or a string (and it is currently considered broken because of that).	[reply] [d/l]