I am trying to use numbers passed from a form element to a script and use it to open a file for writing where the numbers passed are part of the file name.

<input type=hidden name=event value=123456>

I successfully pass the data to the script and can display it on the webpage, but everything goes wrong when I try to use it to open (create) a file for writing. Here is most all the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use CGI qw/:standard/;

my $event = param('event');
my $commentUID = time();
my $newCOMMENT = param('newCOMMENT');

if ($newCOMMENT ne "") {
    open(AFH, ">> $event.txt");
    print AFH "$commentUID\n";
    close(AFH);
    open(BFH, ">> $commentUID.txt");
    print BFH "$newCOMMENT\n";
    close(BFH);
}

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The $commentUID.txt file is opened and written to just fine, but the form data passed to the script does not work at all. The most I could figure out is that the "." is being left out and 123456txt is trying to be opened...but all I get is an internal error. I have looked for a solution for several hours and cannot figure out how to do it. Please help.

In reply to open file using variable passed by form by michael.kitchen

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