Re: flat file problem

When I run from the form (on submit), it does not create or write to flatfile.data, however a confrimation email is sent and everything else is fine.

Thats hard to believe :) You've made an assumption somewhere, and you're not checking something you should be. Its impossible to tell you what without seeing more. Maybe you're not pointing to the right cgi, maybe you're checking the wrong log, maybe flatFile doesn't get called, maybe you're in a chroot jail and /tmp/flatfile.data is really /tmp/apachejails/username/tmp/flatfile.data .... look into using Devel::Trace (or similar) or just start sprinkling around print/warn statements to verify that what you believe is going on, is actually going on.

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Re^2: flat file problem
by csuhockey3 (Curate) on Oct 28, 2004 at 08:25 UTC

$working_dir = $0;
$working_dir =~ s#(.*)/.*$#$1#;
chdir $working_dir;
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Devel::Trace

update:

BINGO!

Devel::Trace

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Re^3: flat file problem

by PodMaster (Abbot) on Oct 28, 2004 at 08:49 UTC

File::Spec->dirname( File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE__))

^{(dirname not official part of File::Spec, get it from here)}

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