Hi Venerable Monks,

A couple of days ago I posted a question which involved use of a seek function so as to write out lines from the position specified by seek. I was given some really helpful procedural suggestions, HOWEVER, the question is actually for an online class, which asks to do it via the function. My dilemma is that I don't think it works for writing out to files.

Can any of you let me know that either it does not work -or- it does? And if it does, what am I missing?

For example:
File cat.txt
cat
in
the
hat

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open (TEST,">>cat.txt");
seek (TEST,0,0);
print "The\n";
close (TEST);

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Should I get:
File cat.txt
The
cat
in
the
hat

If I shouldn't, what need I do (if relying on using seek) to do so?

Oh, and I also tried open (TEST,"+>>cat.txt");

Thanks In Advance,

o2

In reply to Using seek function to write out to top of file? by o2bwise

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