Re: [MacPerl] Splice troubles

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 09.59 -0500 1998.11.25, lachlan.scott@dresdner-bank.com wrote:
>open (APPEND, "+<file.dat");

In general, Don't Do That.

>@arrayOfLines = <APPEND>;
>
>print APPEND (splice (@arrayOfLines, 2));

If you WERE to open the file with <+, and then read from it and write back
to it, you would need to seek to the beginning of the file.  See seek in
the perlfunc manpage (Builtin Functions help page).

But better yet, see the second item in perlfaq5, Files and Formats: "How do
I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a line in the
middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?"

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