Question

I would like to have the files that I am creating to be output into the directory I created in my perl script.

I can create the directory

use File::Path;

$dir = "foo/";
mkpath($dir);

and my files

$FILE = "output.txt";
unless(open $filehandle, ">", $FILE){
  die "\nUnable to create $FILE:\n$!";
}
printf $filehandle "writing stuff to my file\n";
printf $filehandle "and some more stuff\n";
close($filehandle);

Everything works fine except I was the files to be output into the directory I made earlier in the script.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This code will do what you’re asking:

$FILE = "$dir/output.txt";
unless(open $filehandle, ">", $FILE){
  die "\nUnable to create $FILE:\n$!";
}
printf $filehandle "writing stuff to my file\n";
printf $filehandle "and some more stuff\n";
close($filehandle);

You need to specify the path where you want your file to be written. You could use either an absolute path or a relative path, starting from your current working directory.