On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:36, Anirban Adhikary <anirban.adhik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just write the fiilename as us script and file to open are in same location. > my $filename="datafile.txt "; > open my $FH,'<', $filename || die "no such files $!\n"; snip
That needs to be open my $FH, '<', $filename or die "could not open $filename: $!\n"; || has to high an order of precedence. Your code actually does this: open(my $FH,'<', ($filename || die "no such files $!\n")); Also, it opens the file in the current working directory, not in the directory where the script is located. See the other responses for the right answer. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
