in reply to Inline change to the file passed by Glob

make inline changes ... open(STDOUT, "+>csv_add_up")

Are you sure you want to do it this way? An open mode of +> clobbers the file first, I don't think that's what you want. Also you don't have error checking (as in open ... or die "$filename: $!";).

i have to use stdout redirection

Normally, you would do something like open my $out_fh, '>', $filename or die "$filename: $!"; and then print $out_fh "output\n";. Alternatively one could use select, but the disadvantage is that it redirects all print and related statements. Re-opening STDOUT is something one should do only if you know what you are doing and why. (Update: If you really needed to capture STDOUT, which I don't think is the case here, use Capture::Tiny.)

passed using Glob

Is this a requirement? (I'm asking because I wouldn't necessarily do it this way.)

Anyway, the usual way to make "inline" changes is to either open a temporary file, write to it, and then rename the temporary file over the original, or the way Perl's -i switch does it, by renaming the original and then opening a new file with the same name as the original. It's theoretically possible to do it by opening a file in read-write mode (e.g. reading the entire file into memory, seeking and truncateing the file, and writing it back out), but I have to say I personally have almost never done this because it's not safe - if the program crashes, gets killed, the machine loses power, etc., you'll lose data! While not "inline" in the strictest sense, since rename is an atomic operation on many* filesystems, it's much safer - the file will either be the original or the updated version.

Example Code: Here is a demo of the rename method, and here is a demo of a trick using $^I, which is the same as Perl's -i switch (perlrun).

Lastly, I would strongly recommend Text::CSV for CSV file operations (also install Text::CSV_XS for speed).

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Re^2: Inline change to the file passed by Glob
by jagtar (Initiate) on Aug 23, 2017 at 05:45 UTC

    I want to further process two files so i wrote the code like this 

    use POSIX;
use List::Util qw[min max];
use English;
use Getopt::Long;
use File::Basename;
use autodie;



my ($help,$csv_add, $csv_flex);

GetOptions (
            "csv_add=s"    => \$csv_add,
            "csv_flex=s"   => \$csv_flex,
            "help"         => \$help
           );

if ($help || !$csv_add || !$csv_flex )
{
  die "
Description: Provide the csv_add and csv_flex 

Usage $0
\t-csv_add <path> -csv_flex <path> : full csv file paths 
";
}

print "$csv_add\n";
print "$csv_flex\n";


open (CSVADD_FILE,"$csv_add") or die "Could not open $csv_add in read 
+mode OR there is no file with name $csv_add";
open (CSVFLEX_FILE,"$csv_flex") or die "Could not open $csv_flex in re
+ad mode OR there is no file with name $csv_flex";


#removing the spaces between the fields of csv

open(STDOUT, "+>csv_add_up");
rm_spaces(\*CSVADD_FILE);
close STDOUT;

open(STDOUT, "+>csv_flex_up");
rm_spaces(\*CSVFLEX_FILE);
close STDOUT;


#chomp removes any new line character at the end of line and can retur
+n number of elements removed
#remove spaces and /I/0 and /T/0 
sub rm_spaces {
    my $file = shift;
    while (<$file>) {
    chomp; 
    my @fields = split /,/; 
    s/\s+//g for @fields;
    s/\/I\/0//g for @fields;
    s/\/T\/0//g for @fields;
    print join ",", @fields,"\n";
}
}

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    Please suggest on how to make a single function that does the work of rm_spaces() and takes different files.

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[d/l]
      #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $csv_add  = 'add.csv';
my $csv_flex = 'flex.csv';

print "
csv_add  : $csv_add
csv_flex : $csv_flex\n";

for my $filename ($csv_add,$csv_flex){
  if (-e $filename){
    rm_spaces($filename);
  } else {
    warn "$filename not found";
  }
}

# remove spaces,tabs,newlines,formfeeds,cr
# and /I/0 and /T/0 
sub rm_spaces {
  my $filename = shift;
  my $bakfile = $filename.'.bak';
  rename ($filename,$bakfile) 
      or die "Could not rename $filename to $bakfile";
  open my $fh_in, '<',$bakfile  or die "Could not open $bakfile";
  open my $fh_out,'>',$filename or die "Could not open $filename";
  while (<$fh_in>) {
    s/\s+|\/[IT]\/0//g;
    print $fh_out "$_\n";
  }
  close $fh_in;
  close $fh_out;
  unlink $bakfile;
}

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      poj
[reply]
[d/l]
      Read perlintro, pass two(or 11teen) filenames as arguments to the function
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