Re: Unlink or rename?

[samarzone]

in reply to Unlink or rename?

If you don't care for the old data why are you opening the file in append mode? Use '>' for opening file. You have also incorrectly written my where only file name should be. There is no value of a keyword inside double quotes if you are not evaling it. It should be something like

open(my $OUTPUT, '>', "file.txt") or die $!;

Don't forget to close the handle

close($OUTPUT)

Update: As pointed by hossman and Anonymous Monk below, "my file.txt" has no problem as a file name. My assumption was that you were expecting a file named "file.txt"

[Anonymous Monk]

You have also incorrectly written my where only file name should be.

my filename.txt is perfectly valid for a filename :)

[hossman]

"my file.txt" is a perfectly valid filename on many filesystems.

[samarzone]

Agreed. I believed the OP did not want the file name as "my file.txt" and instead he wrote my as a keyword. If it was as a filename then that's perfectly fine.

Thanks for pointing :)