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From: fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Editing in-place a binary file
Keywords: perl -i
Message-ID: <fuchs.657312322@t5000>
Date: 30 Oct 90 18:45:22 GMT
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Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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The One True Manual Page sez:
  -iextension
       specifies that files processed by the <> construct are to be
       edited in-place.
This works fine if you read your files via "while (<>) { ... }",
but what about binary files you'd like to read via "read (??, $var, $size)"?
What filehandle must be used? I tried STDIN and ARGV, but nothing worked.
--

Harald Fuchs <fuchs@it.uka.de> <fuchs%it.uka.de@relay.cs.net> ...
<fuchs@telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.dbp.de>   *gulp*