Hello!
I am having a very noob moment. I am trying to create a file called "example" in a directory that contains an already existing directory called "example" e.g.

path/example #file<br>
path/example #directory<br><br>
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as you can see there already exists a directory called example where i am trying to create a file called example and it fails on "file exists" code:

make_path ('path/example');
open ( my $fh, '>', 'path/example' );
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I have beat my head against the wall and the only solution i can come up with is creating the "example" FILE in a temp directory then copying it over to its example directory. But this does a couple of processes that i /could/ live without if i could figure out why its doing this.

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