Re: Unlink or rename?

If you don't care for the old data why are you opening the file in append mode? Use '>' for opening file. You have also incorrectly written my where only file name should be. There is no value of a keyword inside double quotes if you are not evaling it. It should be something like

open(my $OUTPUT, '>', "file.txt") or die $!;

Don't forget to close the handle

close($OUTPUT)

Update: As pointed by hossman and Anonymous Monk below, "my file.txt" has no problem as a file name. My assumption was that you were expecting a file named "file.txt"

-- Regards - Samar

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Re^2: Unlink or rename? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 22, 2010 at 06:48 UTC
You have also incorrectly written my where only file name should be. `my filename.txt` is perfectly valid for a filename :)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Unlink or rename? by hossman (Prior) on Dec 22, 2010 at 06:49 UTC
"my file.txt" is a perfectly valid filename on many filesystems.	[reply]
Re^3: Unlink or rename? by samarzone (Pilgrim) on Dec 22, 2010 at 07:00 UTC
Agreed. I believed the OP did not want the file name as "my file.txt" and instead he wrote `my` as a keyword. If it was as a filename then that's perfectly fine. Thanks for pointing :) -- Regards - Samar	[reply] [d/l]