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Ok so the only thing I am missing here is that I do no want to make a backup of the old file all I want to do is rename the old to the new then open the new for writing and make the switches in the new file.
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Re^5: rename issues
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 29, 2004 at 18:11 UTC
    You don't want to keep the old file? Add unlink($old_file_name); at the end. You can't read from and write to the same file at the same time, so you have to do it at the end.
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      This is going to sound stupid but hwere exactly should I place the unlink at??

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        Right after the closes
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