GLOB output. What does it mean?... 1

[gareh]

Hi,

This segment of my script:

    open($file_var, ">>../login.txt") or die "$!\n";
    printf ($file_var, "%s:%s:%s:%s:%s\n",new_username, new_password, new_group, new_shell, new_superuser);
    close($file_var) or die "$!\n";

The output on my web page is:

    GLOB(0x810c054)

What its supposed to do is append to the file, all the variables listed, seperated by a ":"

Thanks for any help

 

[missbarbell]

You are trying to print the file handler memory reference, rather than the interpolated string. Try:

printf $file_var "%s:%s:%s:%s:%s\n",new_username, new_password, new_group, new_shell, new_superuser;

Removing the comma after $file_var tells Perl you are using this as a file handle. With the comma there Perl assumes this is the format string to interpolated to the file handle STDOUT.


Barbie
Leader of Birmingham Perl Mongers

http://birmingham.pm.org

 

[gareh]

Thanks.. seems to be fixed now. Much appreciated.