Re: cleaning up as application ends

On 05/12/2007 05:37 PM, Mary Anderson wrote:
>  I would like to perform some clean up at various points in my application.
>  Here is one of them.
> 
>  if ($pageName eq 'CSV'){
> 	my $made_and_stuffed = make_and_stuff_query($pageName);
>         if ($made_and_stuffed == 1){
> 		my $pathName = execute_CSV_query($pageName);
> 		print a({-href=>$pathName}, 'Open  CSV File'), hr;
> 	}
>  }
>  On returning from viewing the file, or on hitting the submit button to go
> to the next page, or on exiting the application I would like to get rid of
> this file (using unlink, of course)  Perl's  END should do the trick, but I
> find that it has rather odd notions of just what constitutes the END of the
> application.  
> Although this particular file can be unlinked anytime after it has been
> opened, I do have some clean up jobs which can be performed only when the
> application exits.  END, which has been tried, really does not work for this!
> 
> Thanks,
> Mary Anderson
> 

END blocks should work properly unless you're running under mod_perl. If 
you using a mod_perl environment, then special considerations must be made:

http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#END_blocks