Re: Cannot print line

Although the issue has been solved in a few different ways, I'd like to point out that one should be using the three-argument form of open (I always prefer to use a variable as opposed to bareword too):

my $filename = "/path/to/filename.txt";

open my $fh, '<', $filename;
  or die "Can't open the file $filename for reading: $!";
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EDIT: AnomalousMonk pointed out my brain fart usage of the filehandle instead of a variable in the die statement. Fixed

-stevieb

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Re^2: Cannot print line by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Nov 28, 2014 at 16:20 UTC
`open my $fh, '<', "/path/to/filename.txt"` `or die "Can't open the file $fh for reading: $!";` `$fh` is the filehandle object (or whatever the proper term is). Perhaps better as: `my $filename = '/path/to/filename.txt';` `open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "Opening '$filename' for reading: $!";`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Cannot print line by stevieb (Canon) on Nov 28, 2014 at 16:31 UTC
D'oh! Of course! Thanks for catching that :) My original comment has been corrected.	[reply]