> what is the $OUT_FILE?
If you saw Chas owens response to the original message you would have read <quote> That would be because $OUT_FILE is a file handle, not the file's name. You should also not be using the qx// operator (aka backticks) to do this, Perl can handle it just fine: </quote> It is a name, hopefully descriptive, of a file. Example, you wish to write a list of telephone numbers to a file, /var/data/telephone_numbers.txt So what you do is create a file handle open my $TELEPHONE_NRS, ">", "/var/data/telephone_numbers.txt" or die ... Then later, print to that fil., eg print $TELEPHONE_NRS "23456789\n"; But if you have had a bad morning, and cant think of a file handle name, you can always fall back to things like; $LOG, $OUT, $OUT_FILE not descriptive but none the less, a file handle Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
