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in thread Perl text file writing

I don't think that's helpful. Per my reading of the program, adding these lines will produce no significant extra output.

Why not tell the querant how to test for errors?

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Re^3: Perl text file writing
by sithsasquatch (Scribe) on May 25, 2006 at 21:44 UTC
    Good point.

    A simple way to see if your script finished running is to add a few more print statements before your closing html tags, like so: 
     
print MYOUTFILE "Testing 1 2 3"; #write text, no newline

print MYOUTFILE "\n"; #write newline

print "Wrote to file \n"; #if this doesn't show in the browser, 
                          #the script didn't write to the file

close(MYOUTFILE);

print "Closed MYFILE \n"; #if this doesn't show in the browser, 
                          #the script didn't close the file

print "</body> </html>\n";

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    In general, tachyon's CGI Help Guide has been invaluable when I was figuring out CGI.

    Update: Forgot to do ID tags.
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