Calling touch ...

[innovative-peripherals]

I'm trying to write a script that opens a file, then matches some 
characters, and then writes the output to an HTML file on the fly.

Everything works except I also want to timestamp a file with touch
in the same perl script and that doesn't work. Touch is active as I 
can 'touch' the file on the console. But my code inside the perl 
script doesn't work.

Here is the latest statements that I tried.

system 'touch', 'test0612a.shtml';

exec 'touch', 'test0612a.shtml';

Thanks for any help,
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