Hello, I have a text file which has a list of files. I need to check a certain path to see if each of these files exist and if they do, then get the filesize and time and print these parameters into a new text file. This is my code: 
my $thisPath = cwd;

my $inputFile = "${thisPath}${ps}inputFileInfo.txt";

    my $pathToCheck = "c:${ps}temp";
    my $outputFile = "${thisPath}${ps}resultsFile_$timestamp.txt";
    open theInputFile, $inputFile or die "Could not read from $inputFi
+le, program halting. \n";

    while (<theInputFile>)
    {
        chomp;
        my $fileBeingChecked = "${pathToCheck}${ps}$_";
        
        open (theOutputFile, '>', $outputFile) or die "Could not open 
+$outputFile. \n";
        
        
        if (-e $fileBeingChecked)
        {
            my $fileSize = -s $fileBeingChecked;
            my $date_string = ctime(stat($fileBeingChecked)->mtime);
            print theOutputFile "Yes, $fileSize, $date_string \n";
        }
        else
        {
            print theOutputFile "No \n";
        }

    }
        close (theOutputFile)
    close (theInputFile)

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Only getting a single line output in the OutputFile and the results - size of file and date do not match Thanks...

In reply to Checking for Files by akrrs7

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