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Re^3: Need a little help appending linesby macrobat (Beadle) |
on Sep 12, 2007 at 21:11 UTC ( [id://638682]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
It's a bad idea to edit a file in-place without a backup, let's just put it that way. Creating a separate output file from your source means your source *is* the backup. So moritz's point, a little less succinctly put, is, "Don't edit a file with important data unless you can undo any changes."
(Or use version control.)
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