Hi monks i want to create some text files at run time and want to write on each of the file something. 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
open ( NAMES, "name.txt") or die "Could not open names.txt.\n";
@list = <NAMES>;
print "@list";
while ($list[$y]) 
{  
open (OUT, ">$list[$y].txt") or die "cannot open file for writing: $!\
+n";
print " hello";
$y=$y+1
}

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The input of a file can be 
john
peter
outer

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Here 3 files should be created as john.txt , peter.txt and outer.txt and i want to do some calculation on this. But the code i have written does not give the output.

In reply to creating a text file at run time and writing to it. by Anonymous Monk

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