Re^4: Is it possible to modify __DATA__ via the DATA file handle or otherwise?

Still using the tell of the DATA filehandle is the far better approach.

There is no guaranty to correctly match __DATA__ without having a full Perl parser.

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Re^5: Is it possible to modify __DATA__ via the DATA file handle or otherwise? by haukex (Archbishop) on Feb 10, 2018 at 19:16 UTC
Still using the `tell` of the DATA filehandle is the far better approach. You are correct, and thank you for the inspiration :-) I just released v0.08 of File::Replace with a new `copy` method: `use warnings; use strict; use File::Replace 0.08 'replace3'; my ($infh,$outfh,$repl) = replace3(__FILE__,':raw'); $repl->copy(tell(DATA)); print $outfh "New stuff! ".gmtime." UTC\n"; $repl->finish; __DATA__` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^5: Is it possible to modify __DATA__ via the DATA file handle or otherwise?
by haukex (Archbishop) on Feb 10, 2018 at 19:16 UTC

Still using the tell of the DATA filehandle is the far better approach.

You are correct, and thank you for the inspiration :-) I just released v0.08 of File::Replace with a new copy method:

use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Replace 0.08 'replace3';

my ($infh,$outfh,$repl) = replace3(__FILE__,':raw');
$repl->copy(tell(DATA));
print $outfh "New stuff! ".gmtime." UTC\n";
$repl->finish;

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