Thanks Jean, But I am afraid to say that my log file is at least over 60 K lines. I do not know how to do it. How can I insert any words in any place of open text file? Regards Winn --- Jean Padilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not an expert in perl (nor in english), but let's > try ;-) > if your output file is not supposed to get too big, > consider 'writing' first your output lines in a hash > ... $hash{1} = "line 1"; and so on > (later, writing line 10 for eg.) > if (whatever) > { > $hash{5} .= " these few words"; > } > when finished, drop all the lines in the hash > to output file > ... foreach (sort(keys(%hash)) > { > print OUTPUTFILE $hash{$_}, "\n"; > } > > Hope this helps. > > Hello Buddy a écrit : > > > > Hi Perl experts, > > I need your help. I am absolute Perl > beginner. > > I am writing perl with Windows 95 machine. I > download > > Perl from activestate and my version 5.6.1. It > works > > properly and I can run some program. > > Currently I am writing log file processing > with > > perl. I can write normal program as read the log > file > > and write to formatted log file. What I am facing > now > > is when I write to format text file, suppose I was > > currently in line 10 for my formatted text file > and I > > want to append some word in line 5 of formatted > text > > file. I want to know how to do it. Which function > > should I use. I use seek() function to write but > it > > add additional machine words. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > Best regards, > > Winn Thu > > Myanmar > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > > http://faith.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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