Chapter 8.2 Writing to a File

you may want to save some output from a script to an external file.

To write to a file:

1. Open the file as described in Chapter 8.1
2. Type print LABEL, where LABEL is the same filehandle you used in Chapter 8.1
3. Type $scalar to write the contents of scalar to the open file. Or type "string", (and don't forget the quotes) where string is a constant you wish to write to the open file.
4. Type ; to complete the line.
5. Close the file (see Chapter 8.5).

open(FILE, ">>../myfile.txt") || &ErrorMessage; print FILE "I'm adding text to a file.\n"; close(FILE); sub ErrorMessage {   print "Could not open file. It either does not exist or the permissions are wrong\n";   exit; }