Creating file doesnt work

[TheDauntless]

Hi,

I'm trying to do something really simple, but it just won't work: How can I create an empty file (fe .txt), and close it without writing anything in it?

I've tried this:

open(ORDER, ">$name") or die $!;

But then it says:

No such file or directory at C:\Documents and Settings\Jeroen\My Documents\School\IW\Perl\Amazon.pl line 172, <STDIN> line 1.

I've tried a lot of other things, like:

open(ORDER, "+>", "$name") or die $!;

But they all give the same result.

What am I doing wrong ??

 

[travs69]

what does $name have in it?
change your die to
or die "$name : $!\n";
or something

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[TheDauntless]

I kind of fixed it.

$name was made by concatenating a string with the result of a function that got the date(), but apparently, getting the date takes some time to work? (The prints before the open() command were printed after the error :S).

I removed the date and now it works

Sorry for the trouble

 

[travs69]

It doesn't really work like that. It will do one thing at a time and not continue until the first thing is done. You might want to play with it a little more and see what was breaking because it will probably come back to byte you in the rear

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[TheDauntless]

That's what I thought... Maybe it was just Komodo screwing up the outputs / errors ...

 

[rharsh]

What does the date format look like? It could contain characters that cannot be used in file names.

 

[TheDauntless]

I can't find a backup file which has the getDate() still in it. But there's a change that I did indeed use a character that's not aloud in filenames... Too bad I can't tell for sure.

Thanks for all your help though!