What you have written should work. What's your shell? zsh can give confusing results; in the unlikely event that this is what you're using, try adding a "\n" at the end of the string you're appending.

BTW, you should check the return value of your open. (And to be excruciatingly correct, you should check the return value of your close too.) Also the parentheses in your print statement are not doing anything for you. 

open FD, '>>/users/smisra/test4.pl' or die "open failed: $!\n";
print FD $string;
close FD or die "close failed: $!\n";

[download]

the lowliest monk

In reply to Re: appending is not done by tlm
in thread appending is not done by s_gaurav1091

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.