how do i create a new empty file in perl?

[webguru]

i want to create a new empty file, but is there a way to do it w/o using the system touch or shell touch command.

[ShawnR]

have you tried:

open MYFILE ">pathname"; # will erase the contents if already exists
open MYFILE ">>pathname"; # won't erase the contents if already exists

file will be created with permissions 0666

Shawn