Britt wrote: > > One solved problem...so I'll try agian....I'm having trouble rewriting > data.When my perl program creates a file, it can also write to it at that > time.When I try to rewrite the file (this works on windows) it leaves a > blank file. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > $pgdat="/usr/home/usrnm/public_html/db"; > print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"; > > open(LOGON,">$pgdat/bbb\.dat") || die "I can't open that file \n"; > close(LOGON); > print LOGON"456\n"; > print LOGON"123\n"; > exit;
1) You don't want to escape the . in the filename. 2) You closed the file before you printed the two lines to it - move the close to after the prints. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (Free site for Perl) -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list. To unsubscribe go to http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/subscribe/perl-unix-users
