Probelms opening a file....

[Guest_imported]

I have a file that I wish to open and read data in from.... here is my code...

$FILE = "$rfile"; #rfile is a string representing the name of the file

opendir (DIR, "/kronos/user/mrdeza/datas/&quot or nodir(); #open the directory where the file is

open (FILE) or die("$!, stopped"
@lines= <FILE>; #read in the desired file
close (FILE);
closedir (DIR);

Now the file is present in the given directory... and its persmissions grant readability... I just don't know what the fu#* is wrong. The error messages tell me that the file is not present. Thanks for any help, and all is appreciated.

 

[raider2001]

I tried your code out and it works fine for me. The only thing I can think of is that $rfile is not the correct value. To debug the problem, you could read the directory and print out the files by adding the following two lines.

@files=readdir(DIR);
print &quot;@files \n&quot;;

You could also print out the $FILE variable and make sure it is the right value.

By the way, you don't have to open the directory to open the file.

Good Luck

 

[tsdragon]

Instead of assigning the file name to $FILE, the usual method of opening a file is:

open(FILE, $rfile);

Regardless, you don't really need quotes around $rfile.
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