I am working on a simple perl program for my first assignment in my programming class. I literally have been stuck on this first part for more than a day. I cannot get my program to simply open a text file that is in the same directory as the program.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my($fileName, $line);
print "Please enter name of file to be opened: ", "\n";
$fileName = <STDIN>;
chop($fileName);
#Associates FILE filehandle with the file: "filename.txt"
open(FILE, $fileName) or die("Can't open '$fileName': $!");
while(my $line = <FILE>){
print $line;
}
I am using strawberry perl. To run the program I am dragging and dropping the program into the command line to get the address of the program. It then attempts to run it.
It initially gave me a readline on closed filehandle error, and then I included the or die("Can't open '$fileName': $!"); portion of the code.
Now it says that there is no such file at the directory, but I know that the test.txt file is there because I just created it.
Picture of the code results: http://imgur.com/R8s7FFE
File directory that shows locations of my files: http://imgur.com/nUfM4lA)