use strict;
use warnings;

my $dataStart = tell DATA;

print while <DATA>;

open my $clobber, '>', $0;
seek $clobber, $dataStart, 0;
print $clobber "Clobbered\n";
close $clobber;

seek DATA, $dataStart, 0;
print while <DATA>;

__DATA__
Original contents

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Prints:

Original contents
Clobbered

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which seems to be what you want. It's not something I'd want to do in production code however! Apart from anything else it may suffer somewhat from line end conversions that could make the $dataStart position rather dodgy.

Perl is environmentally friendly - it saves trees

In reply to Re: Saving to __DATA__ by GrandFather
in thread Saving to __DATA__ by Lawliet

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