Hi monks,

I am back with my queries. The last query gave me fantastic replies and I have been able ot make much progress.

Now I want to write the results of my quiz into a file - "Results.5"- which is directory which is not in the cgi-bin directory but lies in c:\quiz.

I am using the following code, but I am not able to add the results string "Class 5" (which I am able to write when I am in the cgi-bin directory. I am using windows XP 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:standard);
chdir("../../quiz");
my $outfil = ">>Results.5";
  flock(OUT, 2);
  seek(OUT, 0, 2);
  print OUT "Class 5";
  close(OUT);

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Where am I making the mistake. Please help. Thanks in advance for reading the mail.

In reply to Writing to a file which is external to cgi-bin directory by taemid

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