On Nov 22, 1:39 pm, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote:
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),
On Nov 22, 4:27 pm, carni...@gmail.com (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
On 11/22/2011 06:33 PM, tshtatland wrote:
Have you considered appending?
he seems to want a single timestamp in the file. appending would add one
timestamp for each call. how would this do what the OP wanted?
and File::Slurp has an append_file sub which also makes appending much
easier
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 15:33, tshtatland tshtatl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 22, 4:27 pm, carni...@gmail.com (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.
On 11-11-23 03:31 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
That would work, but it would introduce the need to periodically prune
the file, and would make reading the file much more complicated: if
the disk fills up, the final line could well be a fractional
timestamp, so I'd need to verify that what I'd just
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
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
On 11/22/11 Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:27 PM, Mark Wagner carni...@gmail.com
scribbled:
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
On 11/22/2011 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
