Re: Create file in a specified directory

Print out $! to see the error message:

open $fh, ">$uniqueCaptureName" or die "can't open file: $!\n";
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Better yet, use the three arg open:

open $fh, '>', $uniqueCaptureName" or die "can't open file: $!\n";
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Re^2: Create file in a specified directory by ramya2005 (Scribe) on Sep 01, 2005 at 18:47 UTC
Thank you. The code was failing because I didn't have the directory named 'Input' under the 'Public'. When I created that directory it worked Is there a way to check the directory structure and create directories as specified in the path if it doesn't exist already?	[reply]
Re^3: Create file in a specified directory by davidrw (Prior) on Sep 01, 2005 at 19:00 UTC
use `-d` (`perldoc -f -X`) to check for exsistence.. for making a directory there's `perldoc -f mkdir`, and for making it recursively there's `mkpath` in File::Path	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Create file in a specified directory by Anonymous Monk on Sep 01, 2005 at 19:01 UTC
yes , sure you can check for that `#check if the $dir does not exits then we create it if(!-d $dir){ mkdir($dir);}` [download] HTH	[reply] [d/l]