question about Perl and CGI

[Jamesthebull]

Hello,I am making a counter for a website and I need to make a data folder with a count file inside the data folder. I am unsure what extension to add after count. by default it is .txt I would really appreciate any help.inside my cgi file reads my $count_file = "/cgi/data/count";but when i upload my count file it has a .txt

[Silent]

It shouldn't matter what the file extension is, as long as it matches the filename in your perl script.The file most likely has the extension .txt because you saved it with Windows Notepad, which automatically adds the .txt extension if no extension is specified. To prevent this from being added, either save the file with a dot at the end of the name (e.g. "count.") or change the file type to "All Files" when saving it.