Leon, I've tested reading and writing from the same file and it didn't work. I think that can't be done in any language.
Leon wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ahmed Moustafa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: perl.beginners > To: "Leon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Can you open a file for reading and writing as the same time? >> > > I have asked the question of can I read and write to the same file > simultaneously, such as this :- > open FILE, 'myfile.txt' or die "$!\n"; > open FILE2, '>myfile.txt' or die "$!\n"; > while (<FILE>){ > # do some changes to $_; > print FILE2 $_; > }; > > but I did not get any response. Therefore I dont think we can do that. > > ---- end of msg ----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]