Hi Perlmonks,

My interest is to create a text file z.txt inside a subfolder y of the main folder x. I want to write in the text file using a file handle like $fh. I searched for perl examples online but did not find one which can solve my problem. I have written a script x4.pl which creates folders x and y and not the file. The result in cmd shows "Cannot open file 'x/y/z.txt'". I welcome suggestions from the perlmonks to sort out this problem.

Here goes my script x4.pl: 

 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; 
use warnings;

 my $x='x'; 
 my $y='y'; 
 my $dirname = "$x/$y";

 my @folders = split /\/|\\/, $dirname;
  map {mkdir $_; chdir $_;} @folders;

# Print output to a Text File:  

my $output="$dirname/z.txt"; 
open (my $fh,">",$output) or die "Cannot open file '$output'.\n"; 

print $fh "\n It's ok.\n"; 

close $output;   
print "\n Program is over.\n";  
exit;

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Here goes the result of cmd: 

 Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users>cd d*

C:\Users\Desktop>x4.pl
Cannot open file 'x/y/z.txt'.

C:\Users\Desktop>

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In reply to How can one create a text file in the subfolder of a folder? by supriyoch_2008

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