What Does "readline() on closed filehandle INFILE" mean? Please Help.

tristero · Jan 28, 2003

I keep trying to run my script and I get the error:

Code:

readline() on closed filehandle INFILE

what does this mean? btw, INFILE is the name of a file which I am trying to read into an array.
(e.g.

Code:

@input = <INFILE>;

)
I had it working, but now I'm stumped... please help.

tanderso · Jan 28, 2003

Make sure to "

Code:

or die

" in your

Code:

open

statement. It's probably returning an error and not opening the filehandle. Eg:

Code:

 open(INFILE, $file) or die &quot;Could not open $file: $!&quot;;

Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
Order amid Chaos, Inc.

What Does &quot;readline() on closed filehandle INFILE&quot; mean? Please Help.