I cannot get my script to save new files.

The path is correct. Another script uses /home/hampton1/data dir for writing out student.dat and it works fine.

The open<SDATA> statement is ok - I can see the data after stuffing it into an array.

However, no matter what I do, the new files are not being saved.

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use CGI;
use File::Copy;
use warnings;

# define names of student reg info file,student count file and name of
+ js file to be sritten out 
$sdata="/home/hampton1/data/student.dat";
$scnt="/home/hampton1/data//student_count.dat";
$jscd="/home/hampton1/data/jscd.js";

# open existing student reg file
open(SDATA,"$sdata")|| die("Could not open file: $!\n");

# Put file into array
@line = <SDATA>;

print @line;
# confirms array contains contents of file
close SDATA;

# delete existing count & js file - so they can be to be recreated
# test code 

unlink($scnt);
unlink($jscd);

# create file(> symbol is overwriting)
open (SCNT,">$scnt");
close SCNT;

# set all permissions
chmod 0777, $scnt or die "Couldn't chmod $scnt: $!";

# create file(> symbol is overwriting)
open (JSCD,">$jscd");

# print results to javascript file

 print JSCD "This is a test ()\n";
 close JSCD;
# set all permissions
chmod 0777, $jscd or die "Couldn't chmod $jscd: $!";
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I deleted all the processing code to see if it would simply create and save after I uploaded it.

the script works correctly on my PC with the files in the root dir and when they are in a subdir.

I made sure to upload in ASCII and set all permissions.

what am I overlooking?

Any help will be appreciated.

JV