Hello, On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 05:42:24PM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > I have seen more advices to check if a file can be opened, but if I put > something like: > > open (FILE, "$file") or die "Can't open the file $file - $!"; > > ..... after I run the script, if it can't find that file on the disk, the > script dies and it shows me that message in the log file. > Shouldn't it create that file instead of dieing?
No, the default open mode is for reading. If you want to create or append to the file, you may better use: open (FILE, ">> $file") or die "Can't open the file $file - $!"; On first run, that should create the file, latter runs should append to the file, if you are creating a counter, maybe you want to overwrite the file, in which case you may use: open (FILE, "> $file") or die "Can't open the file $file - $!"; There should be other modes more appropiate to create a file for a counter (like for updating it), for that you may want to check: perldoc perlopentut God bless you. Roberto Ruiz -- A train stops at a train station; a bus stops at a bus station; on my desk I have a workstation... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
