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that helped some but
by pigeonjp (Initiate) on Jun 25, 2001 at 21:17 UTC
    if i print $filename directly after that i do indeed get the correct value but the file is still not created. as far as permissions i'm running this on win32, so i'm not sure if there are permissions like in unix?? thanks again
      You could try creating a file in the directory without using perl. That would confirm the write issue
      What is your Win32 platform - if it's NT/2000 you can have restrictive permissions on folders.