Re: assigning contents to file name............

From: Jürgen Exner (jurgenex_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/06/04

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    Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:54:44 GMT

    rxl124@hehe.com wrote:
    > how would you assign a contents to file in perl

    What on earth do you mean by "assign a contents to file"?

    > i was thinking
    > $filename=`echo newvalue > filename`;
    > would work, but it does not, can someone please let me know what
    > i am missing?
    > part of the codes--------------------------------------------

    Your code doesn't even compile!

    > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    >
    > $filename=`cat filename`;
    > print "\$filename has $filename \n";
    >
    > if ($filename eq 'today') {
    > $file_value=tomorrow;

    Unquoted string "tomorrow" may clash with future reserved word at ...

    > $filename=`echo tomorrow > filename`;}
    > else {
    > $file_value=today;

    Unquoted string "today" may clash with future reserved word at ...

    > $filename=`echo today > filename`;
    > }

    Are you simply trying to write something to a file?

    Then you may want to read
        perldoc -f open (pay particular attention the mode indicator)
        perldoc -f print
        perldoc -f close

    jue

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