On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> 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:
> \ / : * ? " < > |
I see.
My confusion is that the only colon I picked out was at the end of the
die "cannot append: $!"
And the colon after "append" looked okay to me (and still does).
I wasn't thinking of the colon that the localtime statement would make.
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Chris Devers
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