Hello ImJustAFriend,

Because you haven’t explicitly stringified the expession $provinfile.$server, the dot functions as a concatenation operator. So the result is a string, but there is no dot character inserted between the two strings. This is obscured by the error message, which does contain an inserted dot character.

Update: It’s good practice to ensure that an error message reflects exactly what’s happening. Here, you can accomplish this with an extra assignment:

for my $server (@servers)
{
    my $full_path = $provinfile . '.' . $server;    # or = "$provinfil
+e.$server";

    open IN2, '<', $full_path
        or die "Could not open Server IN2 ($full_path): $!\n";

    ...
}

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Phantom "No such file" issue by Athanasius
in thread Phantom "No such file" issue by ImJustAFriend

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