When you open your file with ">$sql_log", you're telling perl to open the file in write-only mode with the preceding > sign, which is probably what you want.

However, when you do while (<FH>) you're telling perl to try to read from the file, which you've just told it it can't do, and thus you get your error. Instead, you probably want: 

my $sql_log        = "c:\\temp\\sqllog.out";
open (FH, ">$sql_log") or die "can't open file $! \n";
print FH "test";
close FH;

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to simply write one line out to the file. Update yea, forgot the FH in the print line.

If you're looking to do something more complex, let us know what you're trying to do as there's probably more to this code than what you've given us.

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In reply to Re: Basic, writing to a file by Masem
in thread Basic, writing to a file by dreman

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