Hi monks,
I'm trying to write a cgi script to take data from a text input on an HTML form and (after a bit of manipulation) write it as a text file. After several hours of surfing and experimenting I don't think I'm getting any closer.
When I try to code it as per this mode it looks like this:
#Save the story to file
    open STORY,">$storyfile"|| die "Could not write to $filename\n";
    printf STORY $story;
    close (STORY);

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$storyfile is the full path and filename for the new file, $filename is the filename on its own and $story is the content for the file. All of these are defined earlier in the script.
I end up with this error:
Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/upload.cgi line 33.
Line 33 is the second line posted above. I tried to sort out what this means and found several places that said this implied a permissions problem. I made sure everyone could write to the directory but still get the same result.
When I follow the advice in this thread my code looks like this:
    open(STORY,$storyfile)|| die "Could not write to $filename\n";
    printf STORY $story;
    close (STORY);

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and I get this:
Could not write to 00041616l_k_j
00041616l_k_j is the filename less its suffix. I am having no problem opening similar files in the same directory for reading so I'm thinking I have missed out a step in the creation of a new file. Can anyone suggest what I may be doing wrong here?
Thanks for your help.

In reply to Having trouble creating a text file by greymoose

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