creating a file using a variable name

pigeonjp has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi I've searched a large portion of the website without being able to find and answer to this. I've tried numerous attmepts at trying to create a file using a variable with no success. This is my latest attempt $filename = "$timestamp.txt"; open (NEWFILE, ">$filename"); where the variable $timestamp is defined earlier in my code i've also tried directly creating it with no success open (NEWFILE, ">$timestamp.txt"); i need the .txt to be at the ext for the filename any help will be greatly appreciated

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Re: creating a file using a variable name by azatoth (Curate) on Jun 25, 2001 at 20:13 UTC
First, do you have adequate permissions to create files in the directory? Second, this should work : `my $file = "Timestamp.txt"; open (FH, ">$file") or die "Could not create file : $!\n";` [download] If it doesn't, the die function will tell you why it didn't work... Azatoth a.k.a Captain Whiplash Make Your Die Messages Full of Wisdom! Get YOUR PerlMonks Stagename here! Want to speak like a Londoner?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: creating a file using a variable name by bwana147 (Pilgrim) on Jun 25, 2001 at 20:15 UTC
The syntax seems all right. Try and print an error message, maybe it's something as silly as permissions. `open(NEWFILE, ">$filename") or die "Error: $!"` [download] --bwana147	[reply] [d/l]
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