On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 15:33, tshtatland <tshtatl...@gmail.com> 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. the disk is full), this code >> will replace "status.txt" with an empty file. How can I update the >> file while preserving the previous contents if something goes wrong? >> >> -- >> Mark Wagner > > Have you considered appending?
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 was valid. -- Mark Wagner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
