Hi,
See:
perldoc -f truncate
Teddy
- Original Message -
From: "Tony Frasketi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:33 AM
Subject: Emptying a log file
> Hello Listers
>
> Is there any way in perl to effectively clear the contents of an
> ***existing*** file
Or... another non-perl solution:
echo "" > log.txt
Teddy
- Original Message -
From: "Bryan R Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Beginners Perl"
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: Emptying a log file
>
>
> Not a perl solution, but:
>
> cp /dev/null myfile
>
> - B
Hello everyone,
I am trying to debug perl code. A function call is autoloaded and when i
step into it, it takes me to perl AUTOLOAD call, returning from there gets
me back to main file executing the funtion. Is there any special
settings/procedure i should follow?
thanks in advance,
lohit
Hi All,
I really don't understand why it works this way. Any help will be
greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
Below is a call to a sub-routine add_send_messages. This sub-routine in
turn calls others and ultimately an e-mail is sent via "sendmail". If
the third line is changed t
Hello All,
I'm trying to come up with a solution for changing headers in my java source
tree. Its been suggested to use Perl because it is good with text. Does
anyone have any input or ideas?
Thanks,
mcgee
On Aug 12, Praveen Rajendra Babu said:
Below is a call to a sub-routine add_send_messages. This sub-routine in
turn calls others and ultimately an e-mail is sent via "sendmail". If
the third line is changed to:
Page Level Alerting Going Second One :: $page_name
i.e. moving the $page_name varia
Here's an interesting exercise for beginners. You have an array of
strings, and you want to sort them but in a case-insensitive manner. You
are doing this in two different places in your code. In one place, you
write:
# convert the strings to lowercase when comparing
my @sorted = sort {
Hello Listers
Thanks very much for all the suggestions for solving my problem with
clearing out my log file I've followed the suggestion by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and it does the job for me...
---
open FD, ">filename";
---
What a gr
Hi folks,
I'm prepared to write a simple perl scripts as follow
There are 25 commands executed in following sequence;
export LFS=/mnt/lfs
mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/lfs
mkdir -p $LFS
echo $LFS
/mnt/lfs (output)
/usr/sbin/chroot "$LFS" /tools/bin/env -i HOME=/root
TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ '
PATH=/b
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
Here's an interesting exercise for beginners. You have an array of
strings, and you want to sort them but in a case-insensitive manner.
You are doing this in two different places in your code. In one place,
you write:
# convert the strings to lowercase when com
(I posted this to the beginning_perl group on Yahoo groups, but the two-
hour wait trie my patience. My apologies if this meesage is not new for
some of you all.)
---
Folks;
This is #1 of I'm sure many Perl questions. Thanks to all who help in
advance.
I
On Aug 12, Randy Macdonald said:
However, when I run:
print '';
use NotARealPackage;
print '';
I expect to get:
but I get no output at all. Why is this?
The 'use' statement is special to Perl. It is executed at compile-time,
not at run-time like most of the rest of your code. Because o
Hmm. I'm glad UV came up with h[er|is] solution, as mine was going to be
similar, but involving the German double s that looks (sort of) like a Greek
beta. Neither UV's solution nor mine showed the "feature" on Windows XP SP2
plus:-
This is perl, v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(wi
> On Aug 12, Randy Macdonald said:
>
> > However, when I run:
> >
> > print '';
> > use NotARealPackage;
> > print '';
> >
> > I expect to get:
> >
> >
> >
> > but I get no output at all. Why is this?
>
> The 'use' statement is special to Perl. It is executed at compile-time,
> not at run-time li
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