Creating a file

How to?

[adni18]

How can perl create a file that doesn't exist yet?

[upside]

You could find the answer to your question in any introductory book to Perl but here it is:

open(LOG,">/path/to/file");
print LOG "hello world\n";
close(LOG);

[adni18]

So even if the file doesn't exist, it will create it?

[mack]

that should create it but make sure you have the correct permissions set on the directory where the file will be created.

Mack.

[volatilegx]

Shouldn't it be...

open(LOG,"+>/path/to/file");
print LOG "hello world\n";
close(LOG);

note the "+" sign.