Bill Platt wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am a perl newbie. I have written maybe a half dozen scripts
> and I have spent some time seriously going through tutorials
> and other people's scripts to learn my way. With the current
> problem I am facing, I have spent most of the last two days
> online digging through perl archives on the web searching
> for a solution. I have even taken to looking at a lot of the
> cgi on my own server looking for clues. I am running Redhat
> Linux on an apache server with Perl 5.
>
> I want to be able to save a new static file from a cgi script
> on command.
>
> I know it is possible. I have seen people do it.
>
> As an example, I am trying to duplicate the article archiving
> feature on a site called makingprofit.com . I need this so
> that my team can fill out a form and place our archive files
> on our server. Right now, I am having to build all archives
> by hand.
>
> At MakingProfit.com, they have a form for articles that you
> fill in and submit to the site. At the same time as the
> information is sent to the server, the server will tell you
> that you can view the page at its new permanent address at,
> for example:
>
> makingprofit.com/articles/07262001-18.html
>
> OR at:
>
> makingprofit.com/articles/07262001-18.txt
>
> So, I want to be able to take the information from the
> form and make it into a html file and a text file.
>
> I need to find the way to take that information from the
> form, and make a new file called 07262001-18.html and put
> it in a directory on our server.
>
> Could someone show me how to do it? I know how to overwrite
> or append an existing file, I just do not know how to make
> a new one.
Same way you overwrite a file. If it doesn't exist - it will be created.
open OUT, ">$die/$file" or die ...
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