in reply to Re^2: Downloading Gmail attachments - Corrupted saved file
in thread Downloading Gmail attachments - Corrupted saved file

The concatenation dot should've been a comma: 

open (FILE, ">:raw:perlio" . $att->{filename});
                           ^

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To specify PerlIO layers, you need the 3-argument form of open. Otherwise, the name of the file you try to create will literally start with ":raw:perlio"...

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Re^4: Downloading Gmail attachments - Corrupted saved file
by casimo (Sexton) on Dec 31, 2009 at 00:22 UTC
    almut, changing that dot to a comma did the trick.

    I thank you both.
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