Carrie Lyn Brammer wrote:
>
> I've looked throgh the recent archives. A lot of what
> is being discussed seems too 'advanced' for me. I guess
> i'm a REAL baby newbie.
>
> Can someone please look at the following project, and
> tell me why it is not writing the contents of the
> readfile.txt to
you need to add the name of the target filehandle when you write to it. for
example:
if you open writefile.txt with the filehandle WRITE, you must print to it
like so:
print WRITE "add some text";
At 18:18 18/07/2002 -0500, Carrie Lyn Brammer wrote:
>I've looked throgh the recent archives. A
>> print (@contents);
You have to print to the file handle, otherwise, nothing will
write to WRITEFILE, but to screen only.
So, you have to write as :
print WRITEFILE @contents;
>> @newcontents = ;
>> print "\n The contents of writefile.txt is $newcontents \n";
No, $newcontents here will prin
I've looked throgh the recent archives. A lot of what is being discussed seems too
'advanced' for me. I guess i'm a REAL baby newbie.
Can someone please look at the following project, and tell me why it is not writing
the contents of the readfile.txt to the writefile.txt?
It's tough to learn
