I've made a big program in perl, and i've isolated the problem to the following procedure.

Basicly what I want is to add the array given as a parameter, as a new column in $outfile
When i do the print `cat $outfile`, it correctly displys the file before I edit it.

After I've open and closed the file I check again with the print `cat $outfile`. And I can see that the file has been updated.

Now the next time I call insert, It for some strange reason opens the oldfile since the print `cat $outfile`. Displays the values like the first time I called the print `cat $outfile.

This is indeed the weirding way of perl

sub insert{
  print "insert called:". $ins ."\n";
  $ins++;
  my @toBeInserted = @_;
  print `cat $outfile`;
  
  open(FILE2,$outfile)||die "you stupid ****, file doesn't exit\n";;
  open(FILE3,">"."tmp.file")||die "you stupid ****, file doesn't exit\
+n";;
  my $cnt=0;
  while (<FILE2>){
    chomp;
    my @fields = (split /[ \t]+/,$_);

    push(@fields,$toBeInserted[$cnt]);
    foreach(@fields){
      my $tmpString = $_ . "\t";
      print FILE3 $tmpString;
    }
    print FILE3 "\n";
    
    $cnt++;
  }
  
  close(FILE2);
  close(FILE3);
  #now swap the files
  unlink($outfile) || die "Cannont delete old file.\n";
  rename("tmp.file", $outfile) || die "Cannot rename file\n";
  print `cat $outfile`; 
}
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thanks in advance

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