G'day Maelstrom,

It seems like you are comparing Perl with some other language. If you tell us what that is, we can probably provide a better answer. Links to (some) "countless guides" would no doubt also help. The following may be sufficient for your needs; if not, please provide the additional information that I've indicated.

Perl uses different tokens for a+, w+, and so on; see "open: About modes".

That documentation agrees with you. Here's an extract (+< corresponds to r+; +> to w+):

"... +< is almost always preferred for read/write updates--the +> mode would clobber the file first."

I don't think the requirement you describe for seek and truncate exists in Perl. Having said that, Perl does have seek(), tell() and truncate().

— Ken

In reply to Re: What is the point of a+ and w+ when opening files? by kcott
in thread What is the point of a+ and w+ when opening files? by Maelstrom

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