Wow, I was just in the process in posting my code, which happens to be 

open(DATA, ">/host/n/b/p/p/o/r/nbpdexplorers.port5.com/cgi-bin/data2.t
+xt") or die "Cannot open database file: $!";
flock(DATA, 2);
seek(DATA, 1, 0);
foreach my $item (@currentdata) {
print DATA "$item\n";
}
flock(DATA, 8);
close(DATA);

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and I realized the only thing which was different from the other examples you gave me. I had been using the seek(DATA, 1, 0); because another monk (who I don't remember, sorry) had advised to use when writing to a file and using flock. I tried it without that line and it worked fine. Thanks so much for your examples and assistance.

Just Another Perl Wannabe

In reply to Re: File Truncation Question by arrow
in thread File Truncation Question by arrow

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