Hi folks,

When I run the following script, the code runs but an unitialised print value is declared. I run it again and the entire file I'm writing to is erased! What am I missing?

#!/usr/bin/perl
# addwordspacing3.plx
=head1 DESCRIPTION

Program will read in an html file, append word spacing attribute to th
+e in-line style
and print in DOS window.

=cut

use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use strict;

# Open HTML test file - forward slashes do not need to be escaped.
open INFILE, "E:/Documents and Settings/Richard Lamb/My Documents/HTML
+/dummy.html" or die "$!: Can't open this file.\n";

while (<INFILE>)
{
    s/(<h[1-6]\s+style=.*)">/$1; word-spacing: 50px">/ig;
    s/(<li\sstyle=.*)">/$1; word-spacing: 20px">/ig;
    s/(<p style=.*)">/$1; word-spacing: 20px">/ig;
    print;
}

close (INFILE);
open (OUTFILE, ">E:/Documents and Settings/Richard Lamb/My Documents/H
+TML/dummy.html") or die("$!: Can't write to the HTML file.\n");
print (OUTFILE);
close (OUTFILE);

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In reply to Writing to a file: problem by Tricky

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