On Aug 11, Tony Frasketi said:
Is there any way in perl to effectively clear the contents of an ***existing*** file (making the file empty) ? I have a log file that I'd like to empty out after it reaches a certain maximum file size.
The truncate() function, which takes a filename OR a filehandle as its argument.
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