On 11-11-22 04:27 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
I want to update a status file, similar to this:
open OUTFILE, ">", "status.txt";
print OUTFILE "$last_date\n";
close OUTFILE;
However, if something goes wrong (e.g. the disk is full), this code
will replace "status.txt" with an empty file. How can I update the
file while preserving the previous contents if something goes wrong?
use two files:
open OUTFILE, ">", "status.new" or die "could not open status.new: $!\n";
print OUTFILE "$last_date\n";
close OUTFILE;
use File::Copy;
move( "status.new", "status.txt" ) or die "could not move status.new to
status.txt: $!\n";
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