RE: Avoiding using temporary files

2004-04-15 Thread Barrett-Small, Richard
Thank you so much for this, Jenda and Daniel and Adam Could you give me a stab of code demonstrating appending or printing a record (like the one below) to a scalar (or pushing to an array) and how I might avoid printing OUT but retain the changes I made to the filehandle so they can be passed to

Avoiding using temporary files

2004-04-13 Thread Barrett-Small, Richard
Dear all, First post to this list! Hope I do it right! I'm looking for a way to print to a temporary filehandle or something without having to open a file to print to. I am running some substitutions on a file which has a distinctive record structure. Each record is printed to the output filehan