Re: [MacPerl] Elementary Question

[rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J. Kimball)]

Noe Dinnerstein:  President, BodhiSoftWare wrote:
> 
> I'm a rank beginner at MacPerl.  I'm going through the MacPerl book and
> have a problem.
> given the following script:
> 
> 
> !#perl
> 
> open ( IN,   'README') or die ("Input File open failed\n");
> open ( OUT,   '>>Report') or die ("Output File open failed\n");
> 
> print ("starting loop\n");
> 
>  while ($line = <IN>) {
> 	print OUT ($line);
>  }
> 
> print  ("end of loop\n");
> 
> close (IN);
> close (OUT);
> 
> *************************
> 
> I get the following output:
> 
> starting loop
> end of loop
> 
> But the output file is empty.   The input file exists, yet this behaviour
> looks like the input file is empty (not the case).   What is the obvious
> thing I'm missing?
> 

Where did the README file come from?
Might all the README file's contents be in the resource fork?

Ronald

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