|-----Original Message-----
|From: lance w [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:42 PM
|To: beginners@perl.org
|Subject: simple open file
|
|
|Hello,
|I'm trying to open (create if necessary) a file for APPEND, that will
|serve as a log. The script I'm using will open a file, but fails to
|print anything to it. Any advice?
|
|
|
|my $filename = "open_file.txt";
|open(APPEND, ">> $filename")
|       or die "Couldn't open $filename for appending: $!\n";
|       write "$subscriber\n";
|close APPEND;
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You havent specified the FILEHANDLE to write to in 'write'. 'write' will
write to the default filehandle (STDOUT by default, can be changed by
'select'ing any other valid filehandle).

Also, APPEND may be a bad choice of filehandle name.

my $filename = "open_file.txt";
open(LOGFILE, ">> $filename")
        or die "Couldn't open $filename for appending: $!\n";
write LOGFILE "$subscriber\n";
close LOGFILE;


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