Yes after looking at the project it was much simpler to just count the newlines before each print, and that is what I wound up doing. Thanks for the suggesstions and help. Here is a sample of what i wound up doing as far as the same FILEHANDLE, different file goes:
$filename = "MyJScript01.txt";
push(@filenames,$filename);
$filenumber = 1; #variable to track the filenames format: MyJscript#.t
+xt where # is a number
open (OUT,">$filename");


print OUT "<script language='JavaScript'>\n";
print OUT "function whichMapper(obj){\n";
print OUT "if(obj.selectLSO.selectedIndex == 1){\n";
$lineCounter = 3; #Track the number of newlines printed to the JS file

(other code with many prints each line incrementing $linecounter)...

    if($lineCounter > 1000){
        close OUT;
        $filenumber += 1;
        $filename = "MyJScript0".$filenumber.".txt";
        push(@filenames,$filename);
        open (OUT,">$filename");
        $lineCounter = 0;
    }
    
}

    print OUT "}\n";
    print OUT "</script>\n";
close OUT;
(at the end I do stuff with the files created)...

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This is a snippet from a larger program, but basically what I was doing was creating a javascript file based on some data in a db. The file was being included into a dynamic webpage. The file apparently got too large an cause a buffer overrun in the include directive of the web server we use. so I just decided to break the file up into smaller files and include them in order. Wound up working fine.

In reply to Re^2: Tracking Lines Printed to a FileHandle by ketema
in thread Tracking Lines Printed to a FileHandle by ketema

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