I have a question about using OPEN. On a friend of mine's Apache web server, I have the following bit of code: 
open(PTR,">>nate.txt");

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This opens that log file.

On another web server (also, Apache), I had the same thing, same exact program and everything. It wouldn't work. All I would get is this annoying: 500 Internal Server Error. In the log file, it would give me a Premature end of script headers error: failed to open log file and fopen: Permission denied.
I had the permissions correctly set to read and write on that "nate.txt" file. What I did to remedy that error, was to change that OPEN line to: 

open(PTR, '>>nate.txt');

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My question is, why does it matter if I use the single-quote or the double-quotes? Why doesn't it work with the double-quotes? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!
Nate

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