How can I delete a temp file that I create in PERL?

[mheilbut]

This is the command line that creates a temp file:

$exit = system("/usr/progs/fatrep.pl $repre $data $datb >/tmp/".$repre."fatrep1.html"

After this I use metasend and I send an e-mail for my client.
I would like to after using the metasend delete the temp I created.
How can I do this? Michel, São Paulo, Brazil

 

[MikeLacey]

unlink('/path/to/file.ext'); Mike
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"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us, after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[mheilbut]

It didn't work correctly.
It didn't give me an error message but it continued with my temp file.

The commands are as follows:

$exit = system("/usr/progs/pedrep.pl $repre $data $datb >/tmp/".$repre."pedrep1.html"
$exit = system("metasend -b -t $email -s 'Pedidos' -f /tmp/".$repre."pedrep1.html -m text/html -S 500$
unlink('/tmp/to/".$repre."pedrep1.html');

Any thoughts? thanx Michel, São Paulo, Brazil

 

[MikeLacey]

ah yes..

if you use single quotes to start and end a string, perl won't evaluate any variables in that string.

try this, the variable is not quoted at all here:

unlink('/tmp/to/' . $repre . 'pedrep1.html');
Mike
________________________________________________________________________________

"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us, after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[mheilbut]

The pedrep2.pl program executes fine but when I enter the tmp directory, the file is still there.
Any other sugestions?
Thanks. Michel, São Paulo, Brazil

 

[Krel]

print "/tmp/to/".$repre."pedrep1.html";

Make sure that this is a valid filename. If nothing is getting deleted, the most probably cause is that the file you are trying to delete isn't actually the one you specifiy.