Re: how to create a file

2001-06-12 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Also look at the perlopentut manual page: perldoc perlopentut Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:52:26PM -0500, bdale16 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > I want a perl program when executed to send the data to a file such as text.txt but >i dont need to open the file first. > appare

RE: how to create a file

2001-06-12 Thread Sally
To write to a file you would use something like: open (FILEHANDLE, ">FILENAME"); this command will overwrite anything that already exists in this file or create a new file if one doesn't already exist. Or you could use open (FILEHANDLE, ">>FILENAME"); this will open (or create) the file for a

Re: how to create a file

2001-06-11 Thread -
On Monday 11 June 2001 21:23, Steve Howard wrote: > Quick comment: Make sure the quote types match when opening the file: > > > open (FILE, ">text.txt"); Yep, I knew I was going too fast.I've been mixing my quotes all evening.

RE: how to create a file

2001-06-11 Thread Steve Howard
Quick comment: Make sure the quote types match when opening the file: open (FILE, ">text.txt"); -Original Message- From: - [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to create a file On Monday 11 June 2001 1

Re: how to create a file

2001-06-11 Thread -
On Monday 11 June 2001 19:52, bdale16 wrote: > I want a perl program when executed to send the data to a file such as > text.txt but i dont need to open the file first. apparently i don't > understand what the command is to do this > > If it is open close or write ? > any suggestions on the r