Perl Monks,

I have modified an existing perl program (FormMail.pl) and am trying to create a new file and write to it. For example, 

my $QB_file = $order_number . "SUF";
open (QBFILE, ">/home/client/www/data_dir/$QB_file") or die "could not
+ open QB output file: $!";

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does not work ("no such file or directory").

This is what I have tried:

  1. taking out the -T switch
  2. commenting out use strict;
  3. untainting the $order_number (which comes from another file)
  4. putting the part of the filename path (/home/client/www/data_dir/) into a variable and concatenating it
and some other stuff, but nothing seems to work.

I would really like to create files with the order number as part of the filename and the FormMail.pl script works well.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

In reply to opening filehandles, creating files by madaket

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