RE: create a new file

[Brent Michalski]

Oops, I think you are a bit confused...

'>' will overwrite the file NOT append.

You want '>>' to append.

Brent



                                                                                       
         
                    Andrew Prueser                                                     
         
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open(FILEHANDLE, ">filename")

the '>' indicates open for append, or create if doesn't exist.

checkout 'perldoc -f open' for all the fun things you can do with open.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Nichole Bialczyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: create a new file


ok, so i know how to write to an existing file, how do i create the file,
if it doesn't exist? i want to do something like,

pseudocode -- ewww!
if the file exists{
     write to it
}

if the file does not exist{
     create it
     write to it
}

close the file