Re^2: Totally Befuddled With (Lack of) Text Output

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Thank you and I'll try that check for succesful opening!

Tony

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Re^3: Totally Befuddled With (Lack of) Text Output by sgifford (Prior) on Sep 12, 2008 at 19:54 UTC
You might also want to check that the `print` is succeeding; one possibility would be a full disk or a quota error resulting in not writing the whole thing. Check the `close`, too; sometimes output errors are deferred to the close (when all the buffers are flushed). Also check the size of the file to make sure it's what you expect. It's possible for certain control characters to sneak into a file and make it look different on the screen than what's actually on the disk (like `^H`). Hope this helps! -- sgifford's Web page	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Totally Befuddled With (Lack of) Text Output
by sgifford (Prior) on Sep 12, 2008 at 19:54 UTC

print

close

Also check the size of the file to make sure it's what you expect. It's possible for certain control characters to sneak into a file and make it look different on the screen than what's actually on the disk (like ^H).

Hope this helps!

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