Try this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $filename = shift || "Fav_mov.txt";
open (FILE, ">>$filename") or die "can't open $filename: $!\n";
print "Your favorite movie: ";
my $line = <>;
print FILE "$line";
print "Thank you!\n";
close(FILE);

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Comments:
use strict and warnings, is safer.
To append to any file, use ">>$filename"
If you want to write to a filehandle, you have to specify it; if you don't do it, you'll be writting to STDOUT (or select it).
Remember that if you select FILE, you should specify STDOUT to print "Thank you!\n".
Hope this helps


Hopes 
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In reply to Re: Newbie Script by hopes
in thread Newbie Script by apocrates

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