At 06:37 -0700 9/24/03, Mark Wheeler wrote:
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>use strict;
>print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>print "The contents of the file: <br><br>";
>open (DATA, "example.txt") || die ("Could not open file <br> $!");
>my @text = <DATA>;
>print @text;
>close (DATA);
>exit;

If you're calling the script from Apache or another CGI you will not see the die 
message. Also, from Apache the execute bit will need to be set:

chmod 775 thescript.pl

How about?

if (! open (DATA, "example.txt")
    {
    print "<P> Could not open file, $!\n";
    die;
    }


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