Fellow Monks!

I respectfully ask for your help.
THe following code(below) works perfectly. The goal is to add the numeric content in the variable $count as a line to the beginning of a file.
the good code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $count=8;
use Tie::File;
tie my @lines, 'Tie::File', 'T:\temp.txt' or die 'tie failed';
unshift @lines, "$count";
untie @lines;

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Now.... I want to put the filename in a variable, $file, so that I can change the name through the variable if necessary. I now have this code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $file="T:/temp/temp.txt";
my $count=8;
use Tie::File;
tie my @lines, 'Tie::File', "$file" or die 'tie failed';
unshift @lines, "$count";
untie @lines;

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Which unfortunately doesn't work. I get the following error: 
tie failed at P:\test405.pl line 9

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And.... line 9 just happens to be where I am doing the file tie to the array. I did indeed verify that the file still exists and the permissions are OK. I checked in the CPAN documentation for this module, and from what I saw in it this line: 
tie my @lines, 'Tie::File', "$file" or die 'tie failed';

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.... should indeed work. What finite subtlety am I missing here? I am figuring that the problem must be right under my nose and I am simply missing it.
Your help and wisdom are greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

In reply to Tie::File Help by Anonymous Monk

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