Knowing exactly what byte location you
want to insert at, you can seek
to that location, read in the final bytes of the file,
go back to that location and write out the new lines
and the final bytes.
To give some code:
use Fcntl qw(:seek :flock); # get constants
# location suitable for direct use in seek.
use constant INSERT_LOCATION => (-947, SEEK_END);
my $file = "...";
# open the file for update
open FILE, "+<$file" or die "couldn't open $file: $!\n";
# don't have two copies of us update the file at the
# same time...
flock FILE, LOCK_EX or die "flock: $!\n";
# go to our location
seek FILE, INSERT_LOCATION or die "seek: $!\n";
# read the rest of the file from there
my $end = do { local $/; <FILE> };
defined $end or die "read: $!\n";
# go back to our location
seek FILE, INSERT_LOCATION or die "seek: $!\n";
# write new data followed by old data from that point.
print FILE $newlines, $end or die "print: $!\n";
close FILE or warn "close: $!\n";
(I'm being incredibly paranoid by checking the return value
of print and readline and close.
You probably don't have to be.)
Be forewarned that if the byte location is or becomes wrong
then file curruption is likely. | 