It appears to me that this partial code that is in a loop. Every time you hit open FH, '>', "$list.tmp" that will start a new file with zero length. If $newline happens to be "null", nothing will be written to this file. It could be that your program for whatever reason is "tripping" over this open statement again.

A more normal order of things would be to open the output file much earlier. The reason for this is that we don't want to do a lot processing only to find out later that we can't write the result because we don't have the correct file permissions or path! I have seen programs bomb after 2-5 days of running because of this! So bad idea.

If your program doesn't run for a "long time", I see no reason the close the file handle, FH. When your Perl program exits, the OS will close that file handle. You can open a new file with the same File Handle and the OS will "recycle it". No problem. Anyway if your program just uses a couple of file handles and runs for some seconds or minutes, there is no need to "close" the file which releases some resources back to the OS.

There will be at MOST one line in your FH output file. Open this file handle earlier.

In reply to Re: Not printing to file, but print to screen ok by Marshall
in thread Not printing to file, but print to screen ok by Anonymous Monk

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