From: "Uri Guttman" <u...@stemsystems.com>
>
> hi all,
>
> As with other releases of File::Slurp I think this list should be told
> about it since this module is so easy to use and makes your Perl much
> simpler and also faster.
>
> uri
>
> Have you ever wanted to use perl -pi inside perl? did you have the guts
> to localize $^I and @ARGV to do that? now you can do that with a simple
> call to edit_file or edit_file_lines in the new .018 release of
> File::Slurp. Now you can modify a file in place with a simple call.
>
> edit_file reads a whole file into $_, calls its code block argument and
> writes $_ back out the file.
Hi Uri,
Congratulations for the idea of adding this helpful feature to File::Slurp.
It is also useful for adding a string at the beginning of the file in an easy
way, using something like:
edit_file { $_ = "first line\n" . $_ } 'file_name';
Octavian
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