On Aug 31, Jim said: >open (FILE, "+>", $file) or die "cannot open $file: $!";
I think you want "+>>" there, or else it will overwrite the contents of the file and you won't be able to determine how many lines there were originally. >flock (FILE, 2) or die "cannot flock $file: $!"; For safety's sake, use Fcntl's flock() constants. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
