in reply to Re^4: rename issues
in thread rename issues

You don't want to keep the old file? Add unlink($old_file_name); at the end. You can't read from and write to the same file at the same time, so you have to do it at the end.

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Re^6: rename issues
by sunadmn (Curate) on Nov 29, 2004 at 18:13 UTC
    This is going to sound stupid but hwere exactly should I place the unlink at??

    SUNADMN
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      Right after the closes
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[d/l]
        Ok so we have that done, but there is still an issue here as I can't open the $old_file to read as the rename is ran first, so with that said should I rework the code to rename after the files have been modified?

        SUNADMN
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