--- Nichole Bialczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> so how do i delete the lines that i read in? (keeping the first one
> so that the file still exists)
In the code segment I posted below, the first thig I do after openeing
the file is read a line from it -- which I do nothing with, so it gets
thrown away.
Afterwards, I print all remaining lines, which you could send to
another open filehandle instead of just the screen.
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:08:25PM -0700, Paul wrote:
> >
> > --- Nichole Bialczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > to be more specific, i want to do this: read and delete all of
> the
> > > lines from a log file, except for the first one.
> >
> > open IN, $file or die "$file:$!";
> > <IN>; # throw away first line;
> > print <IN>; # print the rest of the file.
> >
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