On Monday 05 July 2004 05:07, Bastian Angerstein wrote: > > Hello, Hello,
> I have a few questions regarding to the DATA Filehandle: > > 1. > This handle ist opend by default or do I have to open it by myself? It is opened by default. > 2. > Is it possible to change to content of what the handle so that the > __DATA__ Sektion of my skript changes? It depends on the operating system. *nix will allow you to modify any file if you have permission to do so. Some versions of DOS\Windows will allow you to modify running programs but most won't. > 3. > Can I delete anything data from DATA so that the __DATA__ section is > empty? Again, it depends on what the operating system will allow. This works on my Linux OS: #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $data = tell DATA; print "$data\n"; truncate $0, $data; __DATA__ line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
