in reply to Simple/Quick question about opening creating a file using perl

How about using an absolute path? 

open( FILE, '/full/path/to/file.txt' ) or die $!;

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Also, you could leverage LWP::Simple better by calling: 

perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getprint "http://www.url.com"' > /full/path/to/
+file.html

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The return is a file that contains HTML and not just plain text, yes? Then name it .html and not .txt

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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