Re: Opening a file called by a hash value

in reply to Opening a file called by a hash value

Greetings fellow monk,

you seem to be already an experienced programmer so i wonder
if what is following will be of any help , but since it won't take me
too long to write ...

You have already been perfectly answered so i won't add any 
thing this topic . I will rather tell you how to uncover what was 
your mistake when you have that kind of error message .

It couldn't be a problem with the opening of the file , as you 
could have been sure of with using the useful checking tip 
of "or die $!;".
Tell yourself that with Perl flexibility , anything that could 
receive , as an argument , a string between two quotes can be 
replaced by a variable holding a string :

open (FILE,"/root/blahblah");

is litteraly equivalent to

$file="/root/blahblah");
open (FILE,$file);

So your line hadn't any problem . What could it be then ?

Nine times out of ten , it's a problem of a mispelling or missing 
semicolon . So , as the two lines mentionned didn't and couldn't 
have any problem , it had to be a problem that existed before
and that had been reported from one line to the following until
it became critical . So as the other monk did certainly , i looked
upwards line after line to find the guilty one ... And bingo !
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