in reply to Searching input file

What is your question / problem? open looks suspect: open (INPUT, "<books.txt"); are you missing '<' or '>' read, write, or append the file you are opening?

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Re: Re: Searching input file
by h.toothrot (Initiate) on Feb 28, 2002 at 12:35 UTC
    Hi

    I just looked this one up in man perlopentut:
     
A few things to notice.  First, the leading less-than is
optional.  If omitted, Perl assumes that you want to open
the file for reading.
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