in reply to Re: Can't get a simple log creator to work!
in thread Can't get a simple log creator to work!

my perl book didn't say anything about that, really the filehandles section made no sense (this is the o'reilley book). how do i use $main::LOG to store a filename to it? (it would be the name of the log file in this case right?)

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Re^3: Can't get a simple log creator to work!
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 23, 2010 at 06:27 UTC
    Which O'reilley book?

    I suggest you start with perlintro, and perlopentut, but basically 

    open my($fh), '>', '/f/o/o' or die "Can't clobber /f/o/o : $!";
print $fh "stuff\n";
...

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    or the slick version 
    use autodie;
open my($fh), '>' '/f/o/o';
print $fh "stuff\n";
...

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