Just for kicks, try changing line the first 3 lines to... 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open (IN, "one.seq.one.line") or die "can't open IN: $!";
open (OUT, ">out.index.pl") or die "can't open OUT: $!";
print OUT scalar(localtime), "\n";

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..then check to make sure that when you run the program, it doesn't die, and the date stamp gets written to you output file.

I suspect your code works fine, but the OUT stream isn't getting opened correctly and you just keep looking at an old version of the output file.

that's just my guess.

In reply to Re: Funny results of "index" by hossman
in thread Funny results of "index" by jkmiller

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