For pure perl Code, you may try :
if (-e "filename") { print "existed" }
else { open (FH, ">filename"); ...... ; close (FH)}For temp files, you may try using time, plus users IP, that would near 0% that you will have the risk to write to an existed file... Hope this help, Smiley Connie =) ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Baster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:46 PM Subject: Opening files for writing that dont exist > > Hi, > > I want to open a temporary file somwhere and I am facing the problem of > making sure I dont write to an already existing temporary file, thus > curropting some other process somewhere else. Is there a way of telling > perl to open a new file for writing but to throw an error if the file > already exists? > > Thanks, > James. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
