On Oct 22, 10:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.Ruud) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > > > I would like to replace a part of a really big (4GB) text file. And > > the contents that I want to change is really a small but continuous > > portion. Could some one please help me with the best way I can do this > > in perl? > > Is the replacement guaranteed to be the same size as the original? > > -- > Affijn, Ruud > > "Gewoon is een tijger."
Thanks for your suggestion. No, the resulting file may be different in file length. To be more specific, Consider the file contents as: A B C D E F G H and I want to replace the lines 2-4 which may result in a file being A X Y Z D E F G H the problem that I am facing is the time it takes to write out the line 5 to end of file in cases where the file size run into GBs. Is there a way I can cat the contents from D to H to the modified top portion? Thanks, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
