On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 14:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm trying to put a variable value into a text file. I've tried a few > things with no success. > > Anyone know how to do this ? Is it doable ? I'm pretty sure I read how > to do this somewhere, so I'm about to hit the Perl books to see if I can > find it. > Any help will be appreciated. > > Here's what I last tried. It doesn't work and I'm embarrassed to even > show it. But, I did want to show that at least I'm trying to make it > work: > > use strict; > use warnings; > > open (INFILE, "c:\\testmessage.txt") or die "The source file failed to > open - $!"; > my @testarray = <INFILE>; > my $name = "stuart"; > print @testarray; > > Here's what it prints: My name is $name. > > Here's the testmessage.txt file: My name is $name. > > After running my script, I'd like the testmessage.txt to read: My name is > stuart. > > Thanks again for any help.
Hi Stuart, >From the Perl Cookbook Chapter 7, Recipe 10 "How to modify a file in place without a temporary file". open(FH, "+< FILE") or die "Opening: $!"; @ARRAY = <FH>; # change ARRAY here seek(FH,0,0) or die "Seeking: $!"; print FH @ARRAY or die "Printing: $!"; truncate(FH,tell(FH)) or die "Truncating: $!"; close(FH) or die "Closing: $!"; The idea is that you read the file into an array (each element in the array is a line), modify the lines in the array you'd like to, then "Seek" the file position back to the beginning and write the array to the file, therefore resulting in a "modified" file. HTH, Kevin -- Kevin Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>