my $rec; sysopen(DF,"test.txt", O_RDONLY | O_CREAT); sysread(DF, $rec, -s DF); close DF; # Split up records into array. # Will lose \n on recs - add later. @test=split("\n",$rec); # Do some work on @test Work... Work... Work... # Build up into a single record, putting \n back in my $rec;foreach(@test){$rec.=$_."\n";} sysopen(DF,"test.txt", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT); syswrite DF,$rec; close DF;