Saravana Kumar schreef: > Since it is creating > a new file i was wondering whether i can do the changes in the same > file ie., read 1000 characters, do the replacement and write the > output to the same file. This will reduce the disk space used(since > the file i have is 100G).
Just change your specs and don't add the newline with every 1000 characters. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>