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Jan 9, 2004, 1:30 PM
zeshan
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Jan 9, 2004, 1:30 PM
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writing Perl scripts with binmode
I have a perl script which writes other perl scripts.

Should I use normal File printing method or binmode to write these new Perl scripts?

open(FILE, ">test.pl");
print FILE qq|
#!/usr/bin/perl
blah blah blah
|;
close FILE;

Thanks for input.

Zeshan.
Jan 9, 2004, 2:08 PM
fuzzy logic
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Jan 9, 2004, 2:08 PM
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Re: [zeshan] writing Perl scripts with binmode In reply to
you don't want to use binmode when writing ASCII files. binmode is for anything that is not plain text, like images.

Philip
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Jan 10, 2004, 1:25 AM
Andy
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Jan 10, 2004, 1:25 AM
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Re: [zeshan] writing Perl scripts with binmode In reply to
Something like this should work;

Code:
open(FILE, ">test.pl") || die "Error: $!";
print FILE q{#!/usr/bin/perl

blah blah blah

};
close FILE;

As Andrew said, you don't need BINMODE for ASCII type files.

Cheers

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Jan 10, 2004, 8:05 AM
fuzzy logic
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Jan 10, 2004, 8:05 AM
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Looks like I spawned a new name :-)

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Jan 10, 2004, 8:45 AM
Andy
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Jan 10, 2004, 8:45 AM
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Blush

I meant Philip, of course :p

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Jan 10, 2004, 11:06 PM
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Jan 10, 2004, 11:06 PM
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actually, Andrew is my middle name.

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Apr 11, 2004, 3:44 PM
jamesboorer
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Apr 11, 2004, 3:44 PM
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Hi all,

I've been trying a similar thing. However the Perl file that my program creates causes a 500 error.

All the code generated works. If I copy the raw code into my text editor and upload the result it works just fine. I therefore assume that the cause of the error is something to do with not saving the file in an ascii format?? Or maybe my server has a problem with running files created on the server itself... Any advice on this would be much appreciated!

Thanks! Cool