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in thread opened file being overwritten

still not working :(

#!/bin/Perl use warnings; if (@ARGV < 4) { print ("you need to provide 4 arguments\n\t4th argument is file to + parse"); exit; } $fh = pop(@ARGV); openfile(@ARGV); sub openfile { open FILE1,">$_[0]" || die "could not open $_[0]"; open FILE2,">$_[1]" || die "could not open $_[1]"; open FILE3,">$_[2]" || die "could not open $_[2]"; open FILE4,">$fh" || die "could not open $fh"; while (my $line = <$fh>) { print $line; } }

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Re^3: opened file being overwritten
by perishowl (Initiate) on Dec 13, 2012 at 20:59 UTC
    i get the warning readline() on unopened filehandle at file.pl line 21. so that would be my while loop while (<$fh>) { print $line; }