I have the following code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $name = "Zenon Zabinski";
my $date = "072800";

open(FILE, "folder/${name}/${date}.txt");

print FILE "test";

close FILE;

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... and it doesn't work. I thought that maybe it couldn't open a file with a number for a name so I changed the value of $date to "date", but that didn't help.

Using a space in the path didn't seem to be a problem when I put Zenon Zabinski directly into the path, but I need it to come from a variable.

Sooooooooo, what is the problem??

Thanks.

Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com

P.S. Wups! I almost forgot. I keep getting the following warning when I run this:

print() on closed filehandle main::FILE at test.pl line 10.

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