new_monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have been using a script to ftp and delete files from a server. I am using a variation of the same ftp script to delete folders from the same server. This is what one of the folders looks like "{E9424A48-0086-11D7-AE05-AD16EA76821A}". Here is my code and the error message I get below. For some reason when I try to delete one, I can but when I try to delete all of them by loading their names into an array and deleting each of them with the 2nd foreach loop I can't. Maybe there is a breakdown somewhere because the name of the folders uses {}? 


use strict;
use Net::FTP;
use File::Copy;
use File::Path;
use File::Remove;

my $host_disco = "censored";
my $user_disco = "censored";
my $password_disco = "censored";
my $ftp_disco = "";
my $dir = "/";
my $diriq_disco = "/ep005/egate/client/iq";
my @iqfiles_disco = "";
my $file1 = "";
my @iqfolder_arr = "";
my $folder = "";
my $iqfolder = "";
my $folder1 = "";
my $count = 0;

#-------------------------

$ftp_disco = Net::FTP->new($host_disco) or die "Can't open $host_disco
+: $@\n";
$ftp_disco->login($user_disco, $password_disco) or die "Couldn't login
+: @{[ $ftp_disco->message ]}";
$ftp_disco->ascii();
$ftp_disco->cwd($dir) or die "Couldn't cwd to $dir: @{[ $ftp_disco->me
+ssage ]}\n";
$ftp_disco->cwd($diriq_disco) or die "Couldn't cwd to $diriq_disco: @{
+[ $ftp_disco->message ]}\n";

@iqfolder_arr = $ftp_disco->ls;

foreach $folder1 (@iqfolder_arr)
{

  $iqfolder_arr[$count] =~ s/ //g;
  $iqfolder_arr[$count] =~ s/\n//g;
  $count++  }

foreach $folder (@iqfolder_arr)
{ 
 my $dirpath = '/ep005/egate/client/iq/';
 $dirpath .= $folder;
 print($dirpath);
 $ftp_disco->rmdir($dirpath) || die "FTP Message> @{[ $ftp_disco->mess
+age ]}\n";

}

$ftp_disco->close();


sleep(2);
print("Disco IQs have been cleared.\n");

#-----------------------------------#

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Error Message:
/ep005/egate/client/iq/{E9424A48-0086-11D7-AE05-AD16EA76821A}FTP Messa
+ge> /ep005/egate/client/iq/{E9424A48-0086-11D7-AE05-AD16EA76821A}: Do
+ not specify an existing file. <br>
Press Enter to continue

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Edited by BazB: added code tag around error message.

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Re: Deleting Folders
by borisz (Canon) on Feb 05, 2004 at 21:18 UTC
    Since you are alread in the right folder why guess the maybe wrong path again? replace this part with your foreach loop and retry. Perhaps you need to write $ftp_disco->rmdir($folder, 1) to clear the directory. 
    foreach $folder (@iqfolder_arr)
{ 
 $ftp_disco->rmdir($folder) || die "FTP Message> @{[ $ftp_disco->messa
+ge ]}\n";
}

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    Boris
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[select]
      Boris, I tried that today and I got the same message...

      foreach $folder (@iqfolder_arr)
{ 
 #my $dirpath = '/ep005/egate/client/iq/';
 #$dirpath .= $folder;
 print($folder);
 $ftp_disco->rmdir($folder, 1) || die "FTP Message>@{[ $ftp_disco->mes
+sage ]}\n";

}

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      Here is the error message:
      {E9424A48-0086-11D7-AE05-AD16EA76821A}FTP Message>{E9424A48-0086-11D7-AE05-AD16E A76821A}: Do not specify an existing file.
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[d/l]
        Hmm, I have no clue, try $ftp_disco->rmdir("\Q$folder",1); and try to rename a folder and retry it with your script.
        Boris
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