I have been having the hardest time with the open function on the server I am coding. I had no problem with it on my VM but because of restrictions of the proxy server I have to use a server to script. This is the output of perl -v: This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i586-pc-sco3.2v5.0 and unname -a: SCO_SV 3.2 5.0.7 i386 I keep getting Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at ./templateChecker.pl line 97 Here is the problem sub: 

sub getComment
{
        my $switchIp = $_[0];
        my $INFILE;
        open ($INFILE, 'templateHosts' ) or die "can't open file $!";
        my @hostsText = <$INFILE>;
        my $hostsLine = "";

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I have also tried different ways : 
open ($INFILE, '<', 'templateHosts')
open ($INFILE, '< templateHosts')
open $INFILE, '<templateHosts')

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Thanks for any help!

In reply to Undefined value as a symbol reference by link867

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