toonski,
I see that you have been at the Monastery a while, but haven't done a lot of posting. It might be helpful to spend some time on how reading the site FAQ for pointers on how to ask a question effectively. Without any code, it is almost impossible to help you. Some questions for you:

  • Are you using pack/unpack correctly to ensure your fixed length records are always of the correct length?
  • Is there a reason you can't use a DBM module or is there a specific reason for the flat file fixed length records?
  • Are you using open, seek, and tell to find record locations or sysopen, sysread, and sysseek

    More than likely, you can get away with the CPAN module I listed above, but if you want to do a flat file fixed length database, please provide your code.

    Cheers - L~R

    Update: How is it when you start to post to a reply, no one else has done so, but by the time you click submit - 6 other monks have provided better solutions before you? I would still like to see the code even if Jeffa's crystal ball idea was spot on - it will help other monks on their journey.

    In reply to Re: inserting/deleting file data by Limbic~Region
    in thread inserting/deleting file data by toonski

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