"K.L. Hayes" wrote: > > Hello All, Hello,
> Could somebody please help me figure out why the following code will > not write the IP address to a file? > > I've verified that the code can find the file, open it & overwrite any > junk/test data already there with nothing. I've also printed out the > IP address on the previous page using just the print statement. > > <CODE> > sub pcheck { > if (param('pwd') eq $pw ) { > open (CHECK,">${path}dmp.dat") || die "Cannot open dmp.dat: $!"; > flock (CHECK, 2) if ($flock); use Fcntl ':flock'; if ( $flock ) { flock( CHECK, LOCK_EX ) or die "Cannot lock dmp.dat: $!"; } > while (<CHECK>) { You need this line only if you are reading data IN from a file, not writing OUT to a file. > print "$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}"; } print CHECK "$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}"; > close (CHECK); > flock (CHECK, 8) if ($flock); There is no point in trying to unlock the file now, the close() has already unlocked it. > } else { &invalid_info; } } else { invalid_info() } > &ad2; ad2(); When you call subroutines you shouldn't use an ampersand unless you understand how and why it behaves differently. perldoc perlsub > } > </CODE> > > All help is appreciated. Thank you for your time. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]