empty a file's contents in perl

crmpicco · November 10th, 2006, 01:03 PM

Code:

open (FILE, '>>crmpicco.csv') or die "Cannot open file 'crmpicco.csv'\n";    
    # write to file
    print FILE "$csvstr\n";
close (FILE)

does anyone know of a way to empty the file's contents before I write the csvstr to it? i dont want to append to what is already there.

Picco

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crmpicco · November 13th, 2006, 08:39 AM

found out that you change the '>>' to '>'
eg.

Code:

open (FILE, '>crmpicco.csv') or die "Cannot open file 'crmpicco.csv'\n";    
    # write to file    
    print FILE "$csvstr\n";
close (FILE);

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