little is definately on the right track here, but if you're this new to Perl, I'll try to help a little (being a little new to Perl myself, I can relate).

The lines you're using to print a message have the following effect:

open(HTMLFILE, ">pingresults.html") || die "Couldn't open pingresults\
+n";
print HTMLFILE "$HTML\n";

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The first line opens a file with read/write access (the '>' means you'll be doing read/write - no character there would indicate read only). You're associating with this file the filehandle "HTMLFILE".

In the print statement, the filehandle is optional, like this:

print HTMLFILE "This will print to file";
print "This will print to STDOUT";

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Hopefully this will help you get started.

-Sherlock

In reply to Re: Re: How do I print output to STDOUT instead of to an HTML file? by Sherlock
in thread How do I print output to STDOUT instead of to an HTML file? by Anonymous Monk

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