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From:
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Date:
March 19, 2002 10:56
Subject:
Re: output to a textfile
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0203191354480.1259-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
On Mar 19, Matthew Harrison said:

>open(DATA, ">/home/edhunter/0001.txt") or die "Could not attach filehandle 
>/home/edhunter/0001.txt\n";
>
>but what is the syntax to write into it? i have tried everthing i can find. 

  print DATA "something\n";

And you might not want to use the name "DATA" for your filehandle,
although you are by no means obligated to change.

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