On Sun, 2006-23-04 at 17:07 -0400, Smith, Derek wrote: > This does not work as my file still contains both lines. > check-names warn; > fooy > > when I want it to only contain > fooy
That's not what truncate does. It chops off the end of the file. What you have to do is copy the contents to a temporary file until you get to the point you want, close the file, and move (see `perldoc File::Copy`) the temporary file to the permanent one. -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
