If you're problem is that you can't see the error message that Perl is putting out, put use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); under use CGI; in your code, and see if that doesn't help.

Your main problem might be with your Counter stuff; you're trying to read & write to it without telling Perl to open for both read and write. The very basic code for doing this would be something like open(COUNT, "+<../Counter/counter.txt") or die "The File could not be opened."; but you should read the docs and try it out. I suggest you start with the documentation on the open command for the details on how to make it happen, but be warned that "There be Dragons here..."

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.

In reply to Re: Writing to a file by Asim
in thread Writing to a file by Anonymous Monk

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