On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Doran, Michael D <do...@uta.edu> wrote: > I am migrating a perl script from a server running perl v5.8.5 on Solaris 9 > to a server running perl v5.12.2 on Redhat Linux 5.5. The new environment > doesn't seem to like the syntax I'm using to open a file, and I'm scratching > my head over why that is the case. > > That part that is not working appears to be where it opens and reads a file > (a file which it will later append to). The file that is being opened for > read and appending exists and contains data. > > This appears to be the relevant code: > > open (my $DATEFILE, "+>>$date_file") > || die "Cannot open $date_file: $!";
The head-scratching behaviour you describe, where only the system call outputs results, matches mine with perl 5.14.2. Maybe there's a difference in the versions of perl on your two systems? For what it's worth, "Mixing reads and writes" in perlopentut says that you probably want: open (my $DATEFILE, "+<", $date_file) ... (and making that change to my copy of your script makes it work for me). -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
