From: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Anish Kumar K. wrote:
> > $filename = "data_logfile" .(localtime). ".txt";
> > open(LOG, ">>$filename") || die "cannot append: $!";
> >
> >
> > when I compile the file it says "Invalid argument". This is because
> > of the colon character.
>
> It is? Why? That colon looks pretty innocent to me,
It doesn't to Windows. Filenames in Windows cannot contain any of
those:
\ / : * ? " < > |
> What is the whole program -- or rather, what is the shortest whole
> program that shows the error -- and what is the full error?
Those two lines above are the complete program. And the output is:
cannot append: Invalid argument at - line 2.
Jenda
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