Writing to a File

• open(FH, ">filename")

open(LOGFILE,">log.txt"); # Open log.txt for writing

$date = `date`; # Get today's date from the system

chomp($date);

$user = "bart";

print LOGFILE "$date - $user\n"; # Write an entry to the log file

close(LOGFILE); # close the filehandle

• Opening a file for writing will overwrite the file if it already exists

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