in reply to insert into beginning of file

Use Tie::File.

Abigail

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Re: Re: insert into beginning of file
by broquaint (Abbot) on Jul 22, 2002 at 13:56 UTC
    Supplementary to Abigail-II's advice here's example code of how you might insert a line into the beginning of a file using Tie::File 
    use strict;
use Tie::File;

tie(my @fl, 'Tie::File', 'somefile.txt') or die("ack - $!");
unshift @fl, 'a line of text here';
untie @fl;

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    If you're not doing line-based insertion into your file then your best choice is to open a new file and write to that.
    HTH

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    broquaint

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      When using Tie::File, I get the following error: Can't locate Tie/File.pm Is this because I don't have the latest version of Perl?
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