Hello gracious PerlMonks,

I have a short question, its perplexing me but its the end of the day and I am decaffeinated...

Let us say I have a series of filetests in an 'if' statement like this:

if (-e "$f" || -e "$a" || -e "$scratchfile" || -e "$fasta_output") {
    print "Files belonging to a previous version exist\n";
    #delete old files somehow
}else{
    #continue with analysis
}

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If one, or more, of those files exists, how can I delete them by directly referencing the results of the 'if' statement, rather than writing 4 separate 'unlink's for each of the conditions tested? I am sure there is a more elegant way to do it than the way I will do it if I carry on uneducated...

Many thanks, in advance,

Bukowski - aka Dan (dcs@black.hole-in-the.net)
"Coffee for the mind, Pizza for the body, Sushi for the soul" -Userfriendly

In reply to Remembering values from multiple condition 'if' by Bukowski

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