Question

Basically, I’m trying to create a new directory with today’s date, then create a new file and save it in that folder.

I can get all the steps working separately, however the file doesn’t want to be saved inside the directory. Basically I’m working with:

mkdir($today);
opendir(DIR, $today) or die "Error in opening dir $today\n";

    open SAVEPAGE, ">>", $savepage
    or die "Unable to open $savepage for output - $!";
    print SAVEPAGE $data;
    close(SAVEPAGE);

closedir(DIR);

I’ve done a lot of searches to try and find an appropriate example, but unfortunately every word in queries I’ve tried get millions of hits “open/save/file/directory” etc. I realise I could handle errors etc better, that’ll be the next step once I get the functionality working. Any pointers would be appreciated, cheers.

Answer 1

Just prefix the file to open with the directory name. No need for opendir

mkdir($today);
open SAVEPAGE, ">>", "$today/$savepage";