Based on your information, I'd say this line is the culprit:

open(TEMPFILE,">$tempfile") || die "Can't find this temporary file
what is wrong. \n";

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This basically says, open $tempfile for (over)writing, or stop (die). The error message is not very helpful though, for I bet it's a file permissions problem ;) $tempfile is defined as:

$tempfile="c:\\webserver\\osarr.org\\www\\member\\bboard\\bb.html";

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And later on I read:

rename("$tempfile", "$bbfile");

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So, basically, your script opens a file ($tempfile), writes something to it, and renames it to $bbfile. After that, (when the script runs again) $tempfile is gone (you already renamed it) so Perl tries to make a new file, which probably fails due to the lack of permissions. Make sure that the user under which the web-server runs, has write permissions in c:\webserver\osarr.org\www\member\bboard\

To double check this permissions problem, you might want to change the not-so-helpful error message into something like:

open(TEMPFILE,">$tempfile") || die("Can't open $tempfile: $!");

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HTH

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b10m

All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.

In reply to Re: Having trouble with a Discussion Board by b10m
in thread Having trouble with a Discussion Board by Ineedhelpplease

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