Why won't that line do what I want? Is there something wrong with the open file statement I'm using? When I try a two-argument open command by assigning $file to a filehandle called INFILE, I get an error message saying: "Useless use of a constant (INFILE) in void context..." In addition, under the copied and pasted code I show in my earlier comment (which does have a 'my $file' at the top not included in the copy and paste), I continue to get an error message saying: "Can't use string ("1000694-R20120314-C20111231-F10-"...) as a symbol ref while "strict refs" is use", referring to the line where my open file command is. This error seems to suggest my code is reading the name of the file as a string instead of the file itself. Any idea how to fix that?

In reply to Re^8: Use of uninitialized value in string eq by Anonymous Monk
in thread Use of uninitialized value in string eq by Anonymous Monk

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