good day dear monks

this is a question regarding a storing issue - the main part of a little mecha-script works well - i want to store the results in a directory - so that the gathered fiels do not mess up my machine... so here we go... with the outline and the question... look forward to hear from you

i need to have some thumbnails from websites but i tried to use wget - but that does not work for me, since i need some rendering functions what is needet: i have a list of 2,500 URLs, one on each line, saved in a file. Then i want a script - see it below - to open the file, read a line, then retrieve the website and save the image as a small thumbnail. well since i have a bunch of web-sites (2500) i have to make up my mind about the naming of the results.

http://www.unifr.ch/sfm
http://www.zug.phz.ch
http://www.schwyz.phz.ch
http://www.luzern.phz.ch
http://www.schwyz.phz.ch
http://www.phvs.ch
http://www.phtg.ch
http://www.phsg.ch
http://www.phsh.ch
http://www.phr.ch
http://www.hepfr.ch/
http://www.phbern.ch
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So far so good, well i think i try something like this

use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;

my $mech = new WWW::Mechanize::Firefox();

open my $urls, '<', 'urls.txt' or die $!;

while (<$urls>) {
  chomp;
  next unless /^http/i;
  print "$_\n";
  $mech->get($_);
  my $png = $mech->content_as_png;
  my $name = $_;
  $name =~ s#^http://##i;
  $name =~ s#/##g;
  $name =~ s/\s+\z//;
  $name =~ s/\A\s+//;
  $name =~ s/^www\.//;
  $name .= ".png";
  open my $out, ">", $name or die $!;
  binmode $out;
  print $out $png;
  close $out;
  sleep 5;

}
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Note: all is nice and runs well so far untill - yes untill i tried to create a special option: i wanted to force the script to do some storing of the results in a folder Well, what do you think about the idea of storing the results in a folder called images or so!?) is this doable? it would help alot since i get stored the results in a folder. And the many results do not mess the machine...

i run into some issues. tried to do it - to store it in a directory thusly:

should i do it like so....

open(my $out, '>', "path/$name")
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To write a file whose name is contained in $name in the directory images, the correct syntax is

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open(my $out, '>', "images/$name")
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note - the directory called images is in the very same folder...

i get the results

  perl test_8.pl

Global symbol "$images" requires explicit package name at test_8.pl li
+ne 23.
Execution of test_8.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
martin@linux-wyee:~/perl> 
martin@linux-wyee:~/perl> perl test_8.pl
Bareword found where operator expected at test_8.pl line 23, near "$/i
+mages"
        (Missing operator before images?)
syntax error at test_8.pl line 23, near "$/images "
Global symbol "$out" requires explicit package name at test_8.pl line 
+24.
Execution of test_8.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
martin@linux-wyee:~/perl> perl test_8.pl
Bareword found where operator expected at test_8.pl line 23, near "$/i
+mages"
        (Missing operator before images?)
syntax error at test_8.pl line 23, near "$/images "
Global symbol "$out" requires explicit package name at test_8.pl line 
+24.
Execution of test_8.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
martin@linux-wyee:~/perl> 
martin@linux-wyee:~/perl> perl test_8.pl
Bareword found where operator expected at test_8.pl line 23, near "$ "
+images"
        (Missing operator before images?)
String found where operator expected at test_8.pl line 23, at end of l
+ine
        (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
syntax error at test_8.pl line 23, near "$ "images"
Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at test_8.pl line
+ 23.
martin@linux-wyee:~/perl>
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Any opinions on the best path forward?

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