Your problems are with basic open/read/write/close to files. The first parameter to open should not be the file name... it should be a file handle.

It is better to split the second parameter in two. See this simple example: 

# Write to text file:
open(my $fh, ">", $filename)
    or die "Failed open for write! $!";
print $fh "Foo\n";             # Prints to file
close $fh;                     # Close file

# Read from text file:
open($fh, "<", $file_to_read) or die "Couldn't open! $!";
my $line = <$fh>;              # Reads a line.
chomp $line;                   # Removes eol chars (CR,LF)
close $fh;

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It is much better to write small test programs to check things like this out. I personally use oneliners all the time, like this: 

perl -e 'open($fh, ">", "tst") or die "$!"; print $fh "XX\n"; close $f
+h;'

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What you really need is a good first book. There is a review link at the top of this page, it is better to go there, but you won't go wrong with "Perl Cookbook". Otherwise, for a quick look, try the shell cmds: 

perldoc -f open
perldoc perldoc
perldoc perlrun
perldoc Tk      # (Added as Edit.)

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(There is also a nice website, perldoc.perl.org.)

Edit: I'm thinking of trying out Devel::REPL instead of one-liners. It seems neat.

In reply to Re: Further On Down the Line by BerntB
in thread Further On Down the Line by socrtwo

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