Re: Where did I go wrong?

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Re^2: Where did I go wrong? by sjlo (Initiate) on Nov 13, 2007 at 22:46 UTC
getting the error.. Name 'main::FILE" used only once: possible typo at line 9 Use of uniniitalized value in concatenation <.> or string and Attemping line: 302 Moved Temporarily not sure what that means	[reply]
Re^3: Where did I go wrong? by andreas1234567 (Vicar) on Nov 14, 2007 at 06:29 UTC
You probably want something like `use strict; use warnings; my $FILE = undef; my $filename = 'C:\tmp\blah.txt'; open( $FILE, '<', $filename ) or die "Can't open $filename: $!"; while(<$FILE>) { ... } close $FILE or die "Close failed";` [download] See perlopentut for more. Also, it looks like you are running Win32. ~~`/tmp/blah.txt` is not a proper Win32 filename.~~ Update: Thanks to cdarke for pointing out Win32 filename subtleties, where `/tmp/blah.txt` indeed is a possibly filename. -- Andreas	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Where did I go wrong? by cdarke (Prior) on Nov 14, 2007 at 10:43 UTC
/tmp/blah.txt is not a proper Win32 filename. Works for me. It expects a directory called tmp on the current 'drive' (partition). `mkdir tmp` creates it. The problem with using backslashes as a directory separator is that you then MUST use single quotes around them, or 'escape' them. It is an easy mistake to put the filename inside double quotes. / is much safer, and works on Windoze happily.	[reply] [d/l]