that helped some but

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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

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Re: that helped some but by Graham (Deacon) on Jun 26, 2001 at 01:37 UTC
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.	[reply]

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