Use of uninitialized value in open at C:\scripts\newnew.pl line 72. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\scripts\newn l line 72. cannot open '': No such file or directory at C:\scripts\newnew.pl line 72. #### use strict; use warnings; my $masterStr = <$OUTFILE" or die " cannot cannot open '$OUTFILE': $!"; my $INFILE = ("c:\\Temp\\server.csv"); my $INFILE1 = ("C:\\temp\\failures.csv"); $year += 1900; $month += 1; open my $dailyIn, '<', $INFILE1 or die " cannot open '$INFILE1': $!"; #open my $dailyIn, '<', \$dailyStr; <$dailyIn>; # Skip header line while (defined (my $line = <$dailyIn>)) { chomp $line; my ($server, $type, $reason, $status, $ticket, $resolution) = split ',', $line; $_ = uc $_ for $server, $type; $_ ||= '-- missing --' for $status, $ticket, $resolution; if ($type eq "F") { $type = "BACKUP FAILED"; } elsif ($type eq "S") { $type = "SKIPPED FILES"; $ticket = "DO NOT RAISE TICKET"; } (my $serverKey = $server) =~ s/\..*//; if (!exists $masters{$serverKey}) { print "$server not known please update\n"; next; } printf OUTPUT "%s %s %s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s, \n", $day, $month, $year, $masters{$serverKey}{loc}, $masters{$serverKey}{team}, $masters{$serverKey}{owner}, $server, $type, $reason, $status, $ticket, $resolution; } sub loadMasters { my %masters; open my $masterIn, '<', $INFILE or die " cannot open '$INFILE': $!"; #open my $masterIn, '<', \$masterStr; while (defined (my $line = <$masterIn>)) { chomp $line; my ($machine, $loc, $team, $software, $backup, $owner) = split ',', $line; (my $machineKey = uc $machine) =~ s/\..*//; warn "Multiple servers match '$machineKey'!\n" if exists $masters{$machineKey}; $masters{$machineKey} = { server => $machine, loc => $loc, team => $team, software => $software, backup => $backup, owner => $owner }; } return %masters; }