I am have difficulty deleting a file from my computer hard disk the file is a .dat file and its located in the users/all users/Norton folder. I want to delete the contents of the folder and sub folder till i delete the Norton folder. Here is the sample code

opendir(DIR, "$path/$new_folder/$new_folder1/$third_layer") || die("Un
+able to opend $third_layer : $!\n\n");

my @third_layer = readdir(DIR);

closedir(DIR);

print("Third layer is : @third_layer\n\n");

shift(@third_layer);

shift(@third_layer);

print("@third_layer\n\n");

@third_layer = map{ $_ = "$path/$new_folder/$new_folder1/$third_layer/
+$_"}@third_layer;

if(unlink(@third_layer))
{
    print("Successfully deleted the following data : @third_layer\n\n"
+);
}else
{
    print("Unable to delete the following data : @third_layer\n\n");
}

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Any help will be highly appreciated.

In reply to unable to delete dat files from a folder in windows all users/norton folder by 5plit_func

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