Hello. I just started learning perl and I ran into a
problem. Usually I debug errors pretty fast, but I've
been sitting on this one for 2 days straight and can't
find the solution. Well, here it is:


#!/local/0/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:all);
print header;
.
..
...
/*..........Thes lines just crash the program (it stopps
sending to http...(never gets to the last line, and
never returns the error either..*/

$_=param('nameoffile');
tr/a-z//cd;
print ">$_";
if (!(open (OUT, ">$_"))) { print "Error opening file $_
for writing."; exit 0; }

print "end\n";

/* If i change the $_=param('nameoffile'); line to , say
$_="aaa"; it works fine and creates the file. Are there any
funny characters returned with the param that I
cannot sort out with tr/a-z//cd? This is killing me. I tried single quotes, didn't help.

Please help...

In reply to Opening a file error by Anonymous Monk

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