Thank you so much for this, Jenda and Daniel> Could you give me a stab of code demonstrating appending or printing to a scalar and also how I might avoid printing OUT but retain the changes I made to the filehandle so they can be passed to another loop. Memory shouldn't be an issue
Richard . "Daniel Staal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > --As of Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:16 PM +0200, Jenda Krynicky is alleged to > have said: > > >> I am running some substitutions on a file which has a distinctive > >> record structure. Each record is printed to the output filehandle in > >> turn after the substitutions have been performed. Once all records are > >> printed out I need to go back over them i.e. go back to the top and do > >> some further work on the OUT filehandle. > > > > If you can change the code it might be best not to print them at all. > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > Another option, if the above has problems for you, is to print them to a > variable: Perl 5.8 can open a scalar as a filehandle. Do your writing, the > close the filehandle and use the scalar directly. > > Not printing at all would be best though, if the code can afford it. > > That is, if can afford to hold the whole file in memory... (Which both of > these do.) > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
