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Sure thing.

tie @lines, 'Tie::File', $hostsfile or die ...;

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Inserting lines in a file with Tie::File if lines don't exist
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 04, 2004 at 01:41 UTC

    If you really have tie @lines, 'Tie::File', $hostsfile or die ...; then you should change it to something like 

    tie @lines, 'Tie::File', $hostsfile 
    or die "Couldn't tie file $hostsfile; $!";

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      It worked! It worked! WAHOO!!!! :D

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