Irfan Sayed irfan_sayed2...@yahoo.com asked:
i am still not able to modify existing lines in the existing file.
here is my code
plz help
It doesn't work that way. Once you open the file for writing, it's truncated
and you can't read the old contents from it anymore.
Why don't you use a
Irf
From: Thomas Bätzler t.baetz...@bringe.com
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc: Irfan Sayed irfan_sayed2...@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:38:45 PM
Subject: AW: file handle in perl
Irfan Sayed irfan_sayed2...@yahoo.com asked:
i am still not able to modify
Irfan Sayed irfan_sayed2...@yahoo.com wrote:
OK. fine
now i am able to write in a temp. file
after this now i want to overwrite the contents of original file with the
contents of temp. file.
why i want the original file because i want to use this original file
with changes in temp. file in
There's actually even a perl function called rename that does just
this. Here's some good reading for you. Maybe from there you can
look up other stuff when you have questions.
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rename.html
Aimee Mostella Cardenas
