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Re^2: Sequentially numbering output files rather than overwriting an existing file

by marinersk (Priest)
on Jan 08, 2014 at 18:03 UTC ( [id://1069844]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Sequentially numbering output files rather than overwriting an existing file
in thread Sequentially numbering output files rather than overwriting an existing file

For more visually pleasing output: 
if (-f "$name.txt") {
    $n=1;
    my $fn = sprintf "%s-%05d\.txt", $name, $n;
    $n++ while -f $fn;
}

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