How do I CREATE a new text file in perl?

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Re: How do I CREATE a new text file in perl? by tadman (Prior) on Feb 17, 2001 at 01:52 UTC
You can do that with the standard open() call and print: `my ($file) = 'thefilename.txt'; open (FILE, ">$file") \|\| die "Could not write to $file\n"; print FILE $stuff; close (FILE);` [download] The > in the open call means to open for writing. You can create it empty, too, by not writing anything.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: How do I CREATE a new text file in perl? by bladx (Chaplain) on Feb 18, 2001 at 02:20 UTC
Thanks for the help!! I should have known open could do both things, thanks!	[reply]
Re: How do I CREATE a new text file in perl? by Albannach (Monsignor) on Feb 17, 2001 at 01:51 UTC
Read a bit about open and you'll find that the output file is created if it doesn't exist. Update: In addition to tadman's advice you might also check out file test operators which come in handy when one is mucking about creating files. -- I'd like to be able to assign to an luser	[reply]