PERL: whats wrong with this?

[RedOctober]

open (MYFILE, "/home/me/file/");

I get a error "unquoted string MYFILE may clash with future use of FYFILE "

what give?

[YaRness]

can you post the rest of the script?

also you prolly want to do
open (whatver) or die "could not open ..."
as a general precaution for when Something Bad Happens.

[mangeli]

Besides the fact that it is posted in General Linux Questions instead of Programming?

Maybe it should be

open(MYFILE,"/home/me/file");

with out the trailing slash that makes the file a directory?

[RedOctober]

the complete script is

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open (MYFILE, "/home/me/file") || die;

however it does not open the file but instead say " main::MYFILE used only once, possibe typo at line 3"

[YaRness]

well my first guess is you mispelled something.

as for your last post, if the program just those lines, you are opening a file without doing anything with it. try adding a "close MYFILE" at the end and the interpreter should quit *****ing about it. but i think there's more to your script, and you mispelled something somewhere.

also i recommend adding a "use strict;" and "use warnings;" at the beginning of your scripts.

[ 09 October 2001: Message edited by: YaRness ]