Hello PERLanians. I am a very new in perl and try to learn it. So I need advise in the following task: I try to write script which try to open a text file and read first line from it. If reading has fails because the file was not present, the script have to create a file and write value of "0" in that file. If error generated has different nature (e.g. not enough access privileges) script shall not try to create a file (as it already exists; we simply do not have permission). I can not understand the last part of the task (If error generated has different nature (e.g. not enough access privileges) script shall not try to create a file (as it already exists; we simply do not have permission). So far I have this code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#use strict;


  open (FF, "myfile.txt") ;
  
  if(!-e  FF, "myfile.txt")
    {
  open FF, "> myfile.txt";
  print FF "0\n";
  close FF;
    }
  
   else
   {
 sub get_record
   {
  open (FF, "myfile.txt") or die "Cannot open file: $! ";
  chomp(my $record = <FF>);
  close FF;
  return $record;
  }
  }
   
$text = &get_record('pid.dat');
print "text = $text\n";

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Any suggestions are welcome, thank you

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