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I would advise writting to a temp file and moving that tempfile over the original since moves are closer to atomic as a perl instruction. If someone SIG'd your program in the middle, you may lose data.

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Re^3: sorting entires by date
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 01, 2004 at 23:47 UTC
    Good point - and to be truly lazy you hide this behind IO::AtomicFile. :)

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