I have a small script that keeps track of how many people visit a page each day. I am sure the data is being collected correctly and the file path and permissions are ok because it is overwriting previous data whenever the test page is visited.
My sub to open and append to the file goes like this: 
#write data to file
    $logfile = $path.$pg;
    open (LOG1, ">>, $logfile") or die "Can't open logfile: $!";
        print LOG1 "$when\n";    
    close (LOG1) or die "Can't close logfile: $!";

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After a bit of searching in the Monastery I tried a few variations, namely: 
    open (LOG1, ">>", $logfile) or die "Can't open logfile: $!";
    open (LOG1, ">> $logfile") or die "Can't open logfile: $!";
     open (LOG1, ">>$logfile") or die "Can't open logfile: $!";

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without success.
I've carefully read and re-read the docs to see what I'm doing wrong but I guess I haven't been careful enough. Does anyone have any idea where I've gone astray?

Thanks in advance.

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