I have this code that works when I run it locally but not when I run it as a CGI program. I was going to use it to read from a file then overwrite it's contents with something else. have any suggestions why it works on one and not the other or a better way of doing it? P.S. I can however, write to the file if I open it for writing before I open it for reading so it doesn't seem to be file permissions. 
 
my $config = 'e:\Inetpub\wwwroot\msdata\config.txt';
open (CON, $config); my @list = <CON>; close CON;
my $list = join( '', @list );
@list = split(/=/, $list);
my $testnum = $list[1];
open (CONOUT, ">".$config);
print CONOUT '[filenumber]=1';
close CONOUT;

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In reply to my program will run on my computer but not in CGI by Mattk470

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