Your problems are with basic open/read/write/close to files. The first parameter to open should not be the file name... it should be a file handle.
It is better to split the second parameter in two. See this simple example:
# Write to text file:
open(my $fh, ">", $filename)
or die "Failed open for write! $!";
print $fh "Foo\n"; # Prints to file
close $fh; # Close file
# Read from text file:
open($fh, "<", $file_to_read) or die "Couldn't open! $!";
my $line = <$fh>; # Reads a line.
chomp $line; # Removes eol chars (CR,LF)
close $fh;
It is much better to write small test programs to check things like this out. I personally use oneliners all the time, like this:
perl -e 'open($fh, ">", "tst") or die "$!"; print $fh "XX\n"; close $f
+h;'
What you really need is a good first book. There is a review link at the top of this page, it is better to go there, but you won't go wrong with "Perl Cookbook". Otherwise, for a quick look, try the shell cmds:
perldoc -f open
perldoc perldoc
perldoc perlrun
perldoc Tk # (Added as Edit.)
(There is also a nice website, perldoc.perl.org.)
Edit: I'm thinking of trying out Devel::REPL instead of one-liners. It seems neat.
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