in reply to Saving to __DATA__

I know there is a way to save the user's input in the perl file. For reasons not specified, no modules. I searched about saving to the __DATA__ portion, and this is what I scraped together.
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how can I save the user's input to the __DATA__ portion of my file?

As a CPAN advocate, I'll tell you to use Inline::Files and not to reinvent the wheel;

Oh, and on a side note, If I compile (is that the correct verb for this situation) this into an executable, will the saving to __DATA__ still function correctly?

Supposing you are talking about using something like PAR, no. You would have to re-pack all your modules again after writing, and this would be kind of complicated.

[]s, HTH, Massa

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