Having trouble opening a file to read and append things to. Do I need to open the file to read, close, and then reopen for appending? I thought I could use >>+ and save some time.. The matching works fine, and output is boo, so it's getting up to that point.

if ($hostUrl =~ m/(org|net|com|co|edu|gov)/ ) {
        open NAGHOST, "+>>$host_file" or die "can't open the $host_fil
+e $!";
        print "\nboo\n";
        
        while (my $line = <NAGHOST>) {
            #check for duplicate file
            if ($line =~ m/($hostName|$hostUrl)/) { 
                print "Looks like the data you entered is already on f
+ile\n";
            }
        #no duplicate, move forward
            else {
            print "\nbah\n";
            }
}

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output: 

boo

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In reply to Openind file for read+append by jaldama

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