On Nov 22, 1:39 pm, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote:
> On 11-11-22 04:27 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
>
> > I want to update a status file, similar to this:
>
> > open OUTFILE, ">", "status.txt";
> > print OUTFILE "$last_date\n";
> > close OUTFILE;
>
> > However, if something goes wrong (e.g.
On 11-11-23 03:31 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
That would work, but it would introduce the need to periodically prune
the file, and would make reading the file much more complicated: if
the disk fills up, the final line could well be a fractional
timestamp, so I'd need to verify that what I'd just read
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 15:33, tshtatland wrote:
> On Nov 22, 4:27 pm, carni...@gmail.com (Mark Wagner) wrote:
>> I want to update a status file, similar to this:
>>
>> open OUTFILE, ">", "status.txt";
>> print OUTFILE "$last_date\n";
>> close OUTFILE;
>>
>> However, if something goes wrong (e.g.
On 11/22/2011 06:33 PM, tshtatland wrote:
Have you considered appending?
he seems to want a single timestamp in the file. appending would add one
timestamp for each call. how would this do what the OP wanted?
and File::Slurp has an append_file sub which also makes appending much
easier an
On Nov 22, 4:27 pm, carni...@gmail.com (Mark Wagner) wrote:
> I want to update a status file, similar to this:
>
> open OUTFILE, ">", "status.txt";
> print OUTFILE "$last_date\n";
> close OUTFILE;
>
> However, if something goes wrong (e.g. the disk is full), this code
> will replace "status.txt" wi
On 11/22/2011 04:27 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
I want to update a status file, similar to this:
open OUTFILE, ">", "status.txt";
print OUTFILE "$last_date\n";
close OUTFILE;
However, if something goes wrong (e.g. the disk is full), this code
will replace "status.txt" with an empty file. How can I
On 11/22/11 Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:27 PM, "Mark Wagner"
scribbled:
> I want to update a status file, similar to this:
>
> open OUTFILE, ">", "status.txt";
> print OUTFILE "$last_date\n";
> close OUTFILE;
>
> However, if something goes wrong (e.g. the disk is full), this code
> will replace "statu
On 11-11-22 04:27 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
I want to update a status file, similar to this:
open OUTFILE, ">", "status.txt";
print OUTFILE "$last_date\n";
close OUTFILE;
However, if something goes wrong (e.g. the disk is full), this code
will replace "status.txt" with an empty file. How can I up
