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.

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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Something like this should work;


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

Cheers

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I meant Philip, of course :p

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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!