That would still not work. You are putting the cart before the horse, or
rather, the filename before the filehandle.
open(FH, "file.txt") ...
perldoc -f open
perldoc perlopentut
Cheers,
Kevin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:35:14PM -0600, Herbold, John W.
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to:
> Why not just tell it...
>
> open("e:\workflow.txt", "Workflow")|| die "Cannot open workflow $!\n";
>
> John Herbold
> IS Specialist/DBA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Prais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 7:28 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: help with open function
>
>
> I am using the following statement to open a document.
>
> open("..\..\workflow.txt", "Workflow")|| die "Cannot open Workflow $!\n";
>
> 1. the perl.exe resides in e:\perl\bin\perl.exe
> 2. the workflow.txt reside is e:
> 3. the error I am getting is "Cannot open workflow No Such file or
> directory"
>
> What am I doing wrong.
>
> I have tried to place them in the same directory structure and just use
> open(workfloe.txt) but receive the same errors.
>
>
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