#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use 5.010; use Fcntl qw/ O_CREAT O_EXCL O_WRONLY /; my $fh = open_next( "Results", ".txt" ); print $fh "Hello!\n"; sub open_next { my ($prefix, $suffix) = @_; my $number = 0; my $FH; until (sysopen($FH, ($prefix . ($number || "") .$suffix), O_WRONLY|O_EXCL|O_CREAT)) { $number++; } return $FH; }