Problem with writing to FILE----What am I missing? 1

Guest_imported · Mar 13, 2001

The file is created but never written to.
Here is the code. Should I be doing this different.

Thanks
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$filename = "update.txt";

open(FILE, ">$filename&quot

# open for update
or die "Can't open".$filename." for update: $!";
while (<$filename>){
print "Content-type: text/html \n\n";
print "<HTML>";
print "<HEAD><TITLE>Staff</TITLE>";
print "<BODY BGcolor='#FFFFFF'>";
}
close(FILE);

tsdragon · Mar 13, 2001

You shouldn'be be using the while(<$filename>) construct, that's for reading the file. Also, you should be using print FILE "whatever"; to print to the file. You could also do this:

Code:

print FILE <<END;
Content-type: text/html

<HTML>
<HEAD>><TITLE>Staff</TITLE>
<BODY BGcolor='#FFFFFF'>
...
END

Note that there is no semicolon on the END line and it MUST start in column 1. Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

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