Re: File created but blank

Your use of open() is wrong. LOGFILE and $LOGFILE are completely different things. In your case it should have been

open(LOGFILE,$LOGFILE)
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Re^2: File created but blank by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 24, 2008 at 12:57 UTC
Yes, but if open is called with just a FILEHANDLE argument it looks in the (package, not lexical) variable of the same name (in this case `$LOGFILE`). Not that it's not poor style and this form really should be avoided in new code, but it will work as-is (presuming a suitable `use vars qw( $LOGFILE ) / our $LOGFILE` or a lack of `use strict`, of course). (And the pedantic best practices based recommendation would be `open( my $logfh, ">", $LOGFILE ) or die "Can't open '$LOGFILE': $!\n";`. </pedant> :) The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: File created but blank
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 24, 2008 at 12:57 UTC

Yes, but if open is called with just a FILEHANDLE argument it looks in the (package, not lexical) variable of the same name (in this case $LOGFILE). Not that it's not poor style and this form really should be avoided in new code, but it will work as-is (presuming a suitable use vars qw( $LOGFILE ) / our $LOGFILE or a lack of use strict, of course).

(And the pedantic best practices based recommendation would be open( my $logfh, ">", $LOGFILE ) or die "Can't open '$LOGFILE': $!\n";. </pedant> :)

The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

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