Rob Richardson wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> If I remember correctly, in either Visual C++ or Visual Basic (or
> both) there is a way to call open() (or its equivalent) for appending
> and to have it fail if the file doesn't previously exist. Is there a
> way to do that in Perl?
>
> Merely curious -- I'm not likely to need this in the near future.
Hi Rob
As far as I know there's no way to do it with the standard 'open' call,
but if you leave O_CREAT off a 'sysopen' call it should complain if the
file's not already there. something like:
sysopen OUT, file.txt, O_WRONLY | O_APPEND;
Cheers,
Rob
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