I usually run my perl scripts on an UNIX server, but recently I had to use a NT machine.

My script is very simple (or so I thought). I merely reads from a file and displays the info on the screen.

After copying the code from UNIX to NT it doesn't work.

This is a snippet of the script I am running.

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open(DAT,"$FileName");
@inFile=<DAT>;
close(DAT);

print "$#inFile";
print "@inFile";

[download]
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After executing, the @inFile=<DAT> statement returns nothing and the $#inFile statement equals "-1".

$FileName points to a text file in the same directory as the script. There are no problems with opening or closing the file, just reading from it.

Can anyone help. It's probably very simple but it's got me stumped.

Cheers,

Scotty.

In reply to Reading from a file on a NT server by Anonymous Monk

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