I'm running perl 5.8 on a Netware 6.5 server running Apache 2. I want to create/append to a file but no file is being created. I also don't get any error messages. Is there something wrong with my code? Do I need to declare the file handle or something?

Say for example that $file is ist243\243q1.txt. $log would be 243q1.log. 

  $clocktime = localtime;
    @log       = split( /\//, $file );
    @log       = split( /\./, $log[1] );
    $log       = $log[0];
    $log       = $log . ".log";

    chdir("/perl/web/examscores/$courselocation/access");
    open ACCESS, ">> $log" || die "Cannot open $log: $!";
    print ACCESS $idinput . " " . $lname . " " . $fname . "  "
      . $clocktime . " "
      . $useripaddress . " "
      . $time . "\n";
    close(ACCESS);

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Thanks.

Chris

In reply to Cann't create a file by chriso

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