in reply to File Creation

Unfortunately, if there is a module out there to do this, I cannot load it onto the system since I am not the administrator.

This is a frequently held misconception and it is refuted and answered in our trusty perl documentation under:

perldoc -q "my own module"

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Not that you need a module in this case, but still....

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