WARNING -- careful with this.
> Try....
> ----------------------------
> $Directory=<your directory here>
Assuming the above was pseudocode,
> $file="$directory.$file.txt"; # don't forget to add "\" between dir
> # and file
The above will put .'s in your filename.
Replace the .'s with /'s (as I assume the comment meant)
> open FH, ">$file" or die "Cannot open $file:$!";
THIS WILL NOT APPEND.
THIS IS A TRUNCATING OPEN.
This will immediately open a *new* $file, losing any data that was
previously in $file.
> print FH "blah \n";
> print FH ""blah \n";
> print FH ""blah \n";
The 2nd and 3rd of these are syntax errors.
I commend the author for his effort to be helpful, and point out that I
have written some really stupid things to this list. =o)
Please don't think I'm picking on the author here.
But please, be careful when you post advice.
Don't write with blatant errors (though we all make mistakes),
and in particular, don't advise code that will damage someone's data.
For an appending read-write open, use
open FH, "+>>$file" or die "$!: $file";
This will only append (you can ONLY write to the end of the file), and
it is read-write access which will create the file if it didn't
previously exist. It will not harm data that already exists (unless you
write trash to it, which is another matter. =o)
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