Hi Squeeky, If your just writing to the file and not reading it at the same time you may just wish to open the file with:

open(POLLWRITE, ">>D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/j14/include/special_poll.txt) or
+ die "Can't open file: $!\n";
# do stuff here
close(POLLWRITE);
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What this does is open the file in append mode so that the file contents don't get clobbered. Theres no reason to open a file for read and write when all your doing is writing to it.

Good luck my brother,
BMaximus