Re: Re: open works fine but not working

All I get is the warning that I'm chomping on an uninitialised value for the first chomp, which I already knew.

The files I am reading have a maximum of 10 lines and all of them are written by the same routine. If I wrote the only thing should be different is the SQL

I'm looking at the file via the command line both before and after I open it in the program. It has the data and remains intact (as it should).

Like I said, perplexing.
Plaform:

bash-2.04$ uname -a
OSF1 hostname V5.0 1094 alpha
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Perl:

bash-2.04$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.0 built for alpha-dec_osf
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Thanks,
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Clayton aka "Tex"

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Re:{3} open works fine but not working by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jul 27, 2001 at 00:20 UTC
All I can say is that if the open doesn't fail, that means it opened a filehandle. Now, there is a way to have the open fail if the file doesn't exist. One more thing to check is to make sure that you don't have any relative-path craziness. Do you change directories during this program's execution? If you do, that could very possibly be the reason why this fails intermittently.	[reply]
Re: Re:{3} open works fine but not working by clscott (Friar) on Jul 27, 2001 at 00:31 UTC
No, I am using absolute paths. And I have to assume the file is opening since it doesn't die. I actually have quite a lot of perl experience, this is just such a damned weird problem. Oooh. I just tried printing $! on it's own and it's last value ( I thought it wouldn't have one if it made it this far in the execution path) is: `Not a typewriter` What does that mean? Clayton -- Clayton aka "Tex"	[reply] [d/l]