HI guys, im new to perl and this is my first post here so go easy, im trying to make a simple message board, ive done ok so far with the code

open(filehandle,">>guestbk.txt")
 or die("Cannot Open Data File.. Error");
print (filehandle " #!! #l# $message - $from #l# \n!!#\n");
close(filehandle);

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and that works fine the >> i know appends to the file, but thats at the bottom, any tips or ideas on how to append to the top of the file? Thanks in advance and excuse my ignorince if nessesary. Cheers, Chris Rowe

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