Thanks for your reply Dave. Now I am getting 'No such file or directory' when i am sure that the file exists
I changed line 1 to: $file = "D:/test.txt"; The problem is that the file is there for sure! Sorry to bother you again! ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Josef E. Galea'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:23 PM Subject: RE: Please Help > > I am a student an I'm new to Perl. For a university > > assignment I need to read the contents of a text file in an > > array. I am using Windows. The code I am writing is: > > > > $file = "/test.txt"; > > open (INFO, "$file"); > > Always check to make sure your filehandle was actually opened: > > open (INFO, "$file") or die "couldn't open [$file]: $!\n"; > > That should help you find the problem. > > > @lines = <INFO>; > > close(INFO); > > > > Altough this is supposed to work, I am getting a ''readline() > > on closed filehand INFO at line 3' message when I interpret > > it with perl -w. Please Help > > Cheers, > > -dave > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
