Re: Clearing out the file

Hi Ananymous Monk,

If you want to make the file size to zero and needs the file,you can give like this,

open FILE,">>filename";
truncate FILE, 0;
close FILE
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Hope this maybe useful for you.

Thanks and Regards,
madtoperl.

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Re^2: Clearing out the file by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Jul 25, 2006 at 14:20 UTC
`open FILE,">>filename"; truncate FILE, 0; close FILE` [download] truncate works also on filenames: `$ echo abcde > file $ perl -e 'truncate "file", 2' $ cat file ab` [download] -- David Serrano	[reply] [d/l] [select]