First of all, I'd like to say all documentation I've read on using filehandles is extremely confusing to me, and since I didn't understand it I tried to use one to see if I could figure it out. Thus my question. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
#this program is supposed to take user input put it into an array and 
+then add 
#that text into a log file.
use 5.010;
use strict;
print "Enter some text then hit control+D and we\'ll try to send it to
+ the perlogfile:\n";
my @stuff = <STDIN>;
open (LOG, ">>perlogfile.rtf"); 
#error always happens here :no such file or directory

if (! open LOG ) {
die "cannot create link to logfile: $!";
}
print LOG "@stuff";
close (LOG);

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the error from terminal is cannot create link to logfile: No such file or directory at /private/var/folders/EZ/EZjgQkjmGqen0F4rMB61CU+++TI/Cleanup At Startup/filehandletest-288591461.705.pl line 11, <STDIN> line 1.

I dont know why it's trying to look in some temp folder in the first place, but I even went there and pasted my "perlogfile" into that folder. still the SAME error.

I do have permission to read/write to this file.

What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Can't get a simple log creator to work! by aquinom85

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