Sattapattu wrote: > Thanks A, > > My mistake, Apologies and suggestions considered. Let me give you all a > brief scenario of what my intentions are. > > What i am trying to do is,i have to run multiple perl programmes all at once > to change the contents of a text file. and the text file would contain 2 > things. Test name and status. So as i run multiple perl programmes, i want > each prgm to read single line at once and check the status. if the status is > pending , change status to inprogress execute that line, and then change the > status to done and come out of the programme, else skip to the next line > till it finds pending. Just wanted to make sure, this would give access > denied error, as the file would be used by another programmes
All depends on the file locking and how you are opening the file to read/write. On windows the locking is automatic i'm pretty sure), so it depends on how you are opening the file. http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open.html Would probably be a good read. Lyle _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
