Thanks, jonnyfolk!

I'm adding a snippnet of a typical modify subroutine so other monks here and yourself can help me pinpoint the problem area.

# When I test the script locally in Windows, I need
# to suppress flock because it's not supported
# In use in the server, $flock is set to 1.

my $flock = 1;

sub modify {

  my $tmp_file = get_file();

  open(FILE,"+<$tmp_file") || error("The file $tmp_file cannot be foun
+d!");
  flock(FILE, 2) || die $! if $flock;
  chomp(my @lines = <FILE>);
  seek(FILE,0,0);
  truncate(FILE,0) || die $!;

  # could have used foreach here
  for (0..@lines) {
    my ($name, $score) = split/\|/, $lines[$_];
      $score++;
      print FILE "$name|$score\n" if ($name);
  }
  close FILE;
}

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Please help me look at the code to see if I'm missing something :)

In reply to Re: Re: Text file got corrupted? by kiat
in thread Text file got corrupted? by kiat

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