note quester <p>Oh. The file is being written to, but you can't read it because it was opened for append but not read (mode ">>" instead of "+>>"), and also because, due again to the append access, it is already positioned to the end of file when you do the first read.</p> <p>If you change the open mode from ">>" to "+>>", and insert <c> seek FH5, 0, 0 or die "Seek failed, $!"; </c> just before <c> while (<FH5>) </c> it should work.</p> <p>Another way would be to close FH5 and then reopen it for input (mode "<") just before trying to read it.</p> 1008056 1008063