"John W. Krahn" schreef: > Dr.Ruud: >> Mr. Shawn H. Corey: >>> Louise Hoffman:
>>>> I would like to replace the first 2 bytes from ## to BM in all the >>>> files in a directory. The files are binary. >>> >>> Use glob to get the list of files. Use open with read-write to read >>> the first line and replace the bytes. >> >> I wouldn't read a "line", because the first line could be the whole >> file, and the file could be multi-megabyte. >> >> { local $/ = \2; # process in chunks of 2 bytes >> open my $fh, "+<", $filename # read/write >> or die $!; >> if ( <$fh> eq "##" ) { >> seek $fh, 0, SEEK_SET; >> print $fh, "BM"; >> } >> } >> >> Or use read() and write(). > > ITYM read() and print() > > OR sysread() and syswrite() Oops yes, thanks for the correction. The "seek" looked like "fseek" only a few seconds before I hit send, so I wasn't as focussed as I should have been. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/