It should work - It works in

Shaggy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:17:46 +0000

It should work - It works in my test environment.

Do you have permissions set right on 'comments.txt'? It will need to be writable by the user running the webserver.

Since you're only appending ('>>'), comments.txt is created, right? (touch comments.txt and change permissions if required)

Cheers,
Shaggy.

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greg — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Hi, welcome to TWF

I'm not familiar with perl, so some of the above means nothing to me and someone who knows perl might see an error in your code.

However, I can suggest you echo out the $comments var throughout your script. Right after you use the $comments, echo it out to see if it still contains the data it should.
I find this works very well for finding where an issue occurs so I can then investigate that part of the code.

Try using your function to write some simple text to the file, not using your vars, just write "test text" and see if that works.
If yes then there is something wrong with your var data in that function (perhaps global vars like in PHP?), if it doesn't work then there is something else wrong with the function, the file opening, permissions, file writing etc.

As for the blank page:
I presume it's opening the file ok, as you have a 'die' clause and you didn't state it outputs an error.
So, try using your function to write some simple text to the page (as with the suggestion for the comments.txt file)

Again I don't know perl, but...
From a quick look on the net, I find this:
open (OUTFILE, ">>file.txt")
where you have:
open(OUTFILE, ">>", "comments.txt")
I.E. you close the >> with ",.
But perhaps your method is also ok.