Hi, My question is about opening a file at run time.I'm trying to open a file for read and write file which doesn't exist. In other words I want to creat a file when I run perl program.Following is my code. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
$Inputfile='filename';
open (IN,"<$Inputfile") or die "cannot open file: $!\n";
open (OUT, "+<$inputfile.out") or die "cannot open file: $!\n";
while (<IN>){
....
.....
print OUT;  #print to $Inputfile.out file
}
#do something with content of $Inputfile.out

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it gives me error on third line where I try to open that outputfile.Is there any way I can create file when I run the program.Any Suggestion.Thanx

In reply to Creating file at run time by Anonymous Monk

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