"My bad" sums it up nicely, I didn't write specifically what was going wrong.

In the subscript - it doesn't appear to write to the file. I've set a variable to trap the returned value of the Open statement, and it opens the file allright! But when I've tried to read lines out of that file (@lines = <FILE>, or while <FILE> print $_), nothing prints. Nothing is written. It's a mystery to me.

I also tried at this same point in the script to simply copy the file to another, using system(`cp file1 file2`) as well as regular backticks. In both cases, the created file is size 0! But as I said above, all these tricks I've tried in a standalone script, which runs fine. Bizarre!

In reply to Re: Re: File protection in a called script by TrinityInfinity
in thread File protection in a called script by TrinityInfinity

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