Re: Filehandle and formats problem

2004-07-16 Thread Geoffrey Young
please keep discussions on list so that everyone can benefit :) Dermot Paikkos wrote: > Thanx Geoffrey, > > You probably noticed - due to my lack of real perl know-how - that I > scooped a lot of that code from your book so another thanx. sure thing :) > > Its works, problem is I am not sure

Re: Filehandle and formats problem

2004-07-16 Thread Geoffrey Young
> I am pretty sure this is my ignorance on file handles, can anyone > spot my error? yes :) > > my ($tempfile,$fh) = Apache::File->tmpfile; in general, you should avoid using $tmpfile unless you absolutely need it. in this case you don't :) > open(CLOCK,">$tempfile") || die "

Filehandle and formats problem

2004-07-16 Thread Dermot Paikkos
Hi, Mod_perl 1.27 on linux OS. I am trying to create a small app that sends the user a file. I am using Apache::File->tmpfile to create a temporary file which is formatted using a simple format. However I can't seem to get it to work correctly and I am either getting an empty file or a server