K Clark wrote:
> 
> my random mp3 script works with strict and warnings (yeah!). now, i want
> to do a second task with it, which is additionally write the data of
> $inc to a file, named mp3.inc. Here's what i have. i can't find the
> reference to doing this. even the correct perldoc pointer would be
> wonderful.
> 
> #/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> 
> my @mp3 =  glob("/www/mp3/*.mp3");
> 
>  foreach my $mp3 (@mp3){
> 
>  $mp3 =~ s#/www/mp3##;
>  $mp3 =~ s/ /%20/g;
>  }
> 
>  srand;
> 
>  my $inc = "http://www.quantifier.org/mp3"; . "$mp3[rand(@mp3)] \n";
> 
>  print "$inc";
> 
>  open(MP3 ">/home/ken/public_html/rt/mp3.inc") ||
>      die "Sorry, couldn't do that \n";

You should include the $! variable in your error message to find out why
the open() failed.

open(MP3 ">/home/ken/public_html/rt/mp3.inc") ||
     die "Sorry, couldn't do that to /home/ken/public_html/rt/mp3.inc:
$!";


> #
> # this is where i'm stuck, how to write/print $inc into mp3.inc
> #

print MP3 $inc;


> close(MP3) || die "couldn't close \n";


John
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