Grateful for your guidance, I submit the following error based on your coding, please advise.

Can't modify defined operator in scalar assignment at build4c22.pl line 12, near "<PERSON>) " Execution of build4c22.pl aborted due to compilation errors (#1) (F) You aren't allowed to assign to the item indicated, or otherwise try to change it, such as with an auto-increment. BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at c:/Perl/lib/Carp/Heavy.pm line 11. Compilation failed in require at c:/Perl/lib/Carp.pm line 33. 

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

open PERSON, "<", "ou3" or die "Cannot read 'ou3': $!";
open MGR, "<", "ou8" or die "Cannot read 'ou8': $!";
open OUT, ">", "buildAD.ldif" or die "Cannot write to 'buildAD.ldif': 
+$!";

truncate (OUT, 0);

while (defined my $input1 = <PERSON>) {
        my $input2 = <MGR> or die "No file MGR for $input1";
        chomp $input1;
        chomp $input2;
        print OUT $input1;
        print OUT "changetype: modify";
        print OUT "replace: manager";
        print OUT $input2, "\n";
}

close PERSON;
close MGR;
close OUT;
exit;

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In reply to Re^10: Perl Builds an LDIF by rfransix
in thread Perl Builds an LDIF by rfransix

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