Preserved Topic: writting to a file in PERL (Page 1 of 1)

Hey guys, i need to know how to write to a file, but overwrite EVERYTHING inside of the file, understand?

please help!!

thanks alot!

foam
www.thefoam.org

Okay, I'll do my best to help using examples.

#!/usr/bin/perl

# write new file (overwrite if exists)

open(FILE,">filename") or die("unable to open file");

print FILE "this will be written to file";

close(FILE);

exit;

Notice the ">" before the filename. This will open the file in overwrite mode. If you want to open the file in append mode, change the ">" to ">>".

If this doesn't answer your questions, feel free to e-mail me.




drcyclops

To read the file leave it blank or use <


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Foam I am totally sorry I flaked on you. I was helping you out with your script. I got side-tracked with all this gurusnetwork stuff and you got put on the back burner but the answer to this drcyc has it right


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