Hey Monks,
I am having trouble with a script of mine. need your help. i create a package called Packagetest.pl. it has a subroutine called ReadFile() which has to read a txt file, then sort it and print it out. Now i have many txt files which are in the same format, so i wanted to make it generic by passing the filename as an argument to the subroutine. this is when the error happened.
The error reads as follows:
Error:cannot read the file: No such file or directory at Packagetest.pl line 14.

Here is the code in Packagetest.pl

package Packagetest;
BEGIN{
print"You are using Packagetest\n";
}

sub ReadFile 
{
    $file = @_;
    open(DATA,"$file") || die "cannot read the file: $!";
    while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    @tokens = split /\|/;
    print "Wrestlername: $tokens[0]\n";
    print "Crowdreaction: $tokens[1]\n";
    print "Specialmove: $tokens[2]\n\n";
    }
}
return 1;
END{
    print"Thank you for using the package\n";
}
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Here is the code for the file that calls this package.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
require 'Packagetest.pl';
Packagetest::ReadFile("datafile");
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Note that both the datafile is a txt file that has to be read.
The package,txtfile and the script that calls the package are in the same dir

Thanks
Irishboy

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