Colin Johnstone wrote: > > Gidday all, Hello,
> Im having trouble reading and writing to this file, It's probably just > something silly. > Heres my code. I have set the permissions on the file to 775. > > <code> > my ($filename); > > $filename = > "/home/bdweb8083m/johnstonefamily.com/cgi-bin/hp_data/participants.txt"; You can declare and assign in one statement: my $filename = '/home/bdweb8083m/johnstonefamily.com/cgi-bin/hp_data/participants.txt'; > if( -e $filename ){ > print "Yeah - File exists<br>"; > } > > my @participants; > > open IN, "<$filename" || die( "Cannot Open: $!" ); The high precedence of || means that that in interpreted as: open IN, ( "<$filename" || die( "Cannot Open: $!" ) ); Which is not what you want. You should use the low precedence or instead: open IN, "<$filename" or die "Cannot Open: $!"; Or use parenthesis for the open function: open( IN, "<$filename" ) || die "Cannot Open: $!"; > while( my $line = <IN> ){ > chomp $line; > push( @participants, $line ); > } You can declare and assign to the array in one statement: chomp( my @participants = <IN> ); > close IN; > > print "Num elements array participants = ".scalar( @participants )."<br>"; > > my $outString; > $outString = ""; > $outString .= $fields{'SelectCity'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'Workshop1'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'Workshop2'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'Salutation'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'FirstName'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'LastName'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'Title'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'CompanyName'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'CompanyAddress'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'Suburb'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'State'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'PostCode'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'PhoneNumber'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'Mobile'} . ","; > $outString .= $fields{'EmailAddress'}; It looks like you need a join here: my $outString = join ',', @fields{ qw( SelectCity Workshop1 Workshop2 Salutation FirstName LastName Title CompanyName CompanyAddress Suburb State PostCode PhoneNumber Mobile EmailAddress ) }; > print "Out string =$outString<br>"; > > push( @participants, $outString ); > > print "Num elements array participants = ".scalar( @participants )."<br>"; > > print "@participants\n\n"; > > open( OUTFILE, '>$filename') or die( "Cannot open file: $!"); > while( @participants ){ > my $val = shift( @participants ); > print( OUTFILE "$val\n" ); > } A foreach loop is more efficient then shifting each element from an array: foreach( @participants ) { print OUTFILE "$_\n" ; } > close( OUTFILE ) or die( "Cannot close file: $!"); > </code> John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]