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in reply to Re: Write to filehandle without deleting current text
in thread Write to filehandle without deleting current text

When the Read Mode file handler doesn’t to utilize another process you closed the file hander.

Then open the file a file handler in Write Mode with the same file name and print the contents you will the new (updated) contents in the sample file.

#!/usr/bin/perl $fileName = "abc"; open(IN, "<", "$fileName") or die "Could not open file $fileName"; read IN, my $new, -s IN, close (IN); $new =~ s/foo/bar/g; # Open the the file in write mode open(OUT, ">", "$fileName") or die "Could not open file $fileName"; # print the new contents print OUT $new; close (OUT);