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How do I delete a file's content? I don't want it to
append, I want the contents overwritten, how do I
do it? What I have is:

# Append the fetched data to the local file.

open out, ">>$localfile";
print out $result->content;
close out;

Does the >> have something to do with appending?


thanks

(newzguy) wrote in news:6d7814d4.0408061938.3856e8a4
@posting.google.com:

> How do I delete a file's content? I don't want it to
> append, I want the contents overwritten, how do I
> do it? What I have is:
>
> # Append the fetched data to the local file.
>
> open out, ">>$localfile";

open my $out, '>', $localfile or die "Cannot open $localfile: $!";

> print out $result->content;
> close out;
>
> Does the >> have something to do with appending?

perldoc -f open

(newzguy) writes:

> How do I delete a file's content? I don't want it to
> append, I want the contents overwritten, how do I
> do it? What I have is:
>
> # Append the fetched data to the local file.
>
> open out, ">>$localfile";

Instead use

open out, ">$localfile";

See the documentation for open for more information.

----ScottG.

newzguy wrote:
> How do I delete a file's content?

Many different ways.
- you could delete the file and then recreate it; however coming to think of
it this would create new file although with the same file name.
- you could open the file for writing and immediately close it again
- ...

> I don't want it to
> append, I want the contents overwritten, how do I
> do it? What I have is:
>
> # Append the fetched data to the local file.

You don't want to append but you append?
Mind to explain?

> open out, ">>$localfile";

Ok, you code comforms with the comment, but both of those conflict with your
spec.

> print out $result->content;
> close out;
>
> Does the >> have something to do with appending?

What happened when you read the documentation for the open() function?

jue