I am writing some code that reads from a file, places the code in a form tag in my hmtl, and when I submit the form I would like to overwrite the file with data from the form. The only problem is is that I can only get a read and not a write command to work, and since my code is on a Windows box that I only have ftp access too I have no control over permissions. When I try to check the file's status with a '-w' it says that I have write permissions. Here is what I'm using: 
my $filename= "$Bin/myfilename.cgi";  #filename

#open file with read access and save to array -- this works
open(TEST, "$filename") || &ErrorMessage("Can't read file");
@mycontentfromfile = <TEST>;
close(TEST);

my $guidelines = "content I would like to use to overwrite existing";

#open file with write access -- get error message listed below
open(TEST, "> $filename") || &ErrorMessage("Can't open the file to sav
+e content");
print TEST "$guidelines\n";
close(TEST );

#this print statement is executed
if (-w $filename) {
   print "This file has write permissions".
}

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I have tried every different type of open and the only thing that works is the read permissions. Help please.

In reply to Problems writing to an external file by willick

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