Re^2: If Condition causes totally blank Output File/Issue in Writing to Output

Try printing something known on opening the file and again before closing.

open $OUT, ">", "$filename.counts" or die "$filename.counts: $!";
print $OUT scalar localtime." open\n";
#
# code
#
print $OUT scalar localtime." close\n";
close $OUT;
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Does more code run after the part you posted ?

poj

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