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in reply to Re: Using OPEN to append to a file
in thread Using OPEN to append to a file

I've run it a couple of times and seems to work but it leaves one line in the US Robotics log file, which causes a dupe when it's run again. I just ran it again and the whole US Robotics file was cleared except for that one line.

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Re: Re: Re: Using OPEN to append to a file
by jjdraco (Scribe) on Oct 20, 2002 at 00:54 UTC
    should be able to make acouple of small edits to it to get rid of that blank line. Is that blank line a big deal or can you live with it, I for one would like it, then it leaves breaks inbetween writes.

    Update: ok take another look at the code again I added a pop line to get that line off the file, the program was leaving the first element of the array in the file so I pop it off in to nothing, probably not the best thing to do but I'm not sure what else would work. after all by just setting $#log to 0 aren't I just loosing the whole file in memory somewhere. I'm not sure

    jjdraco
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      Well it wasn't a blank line it. It was like you said later the first element of the array in the file.
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