Re: pie multiline replace

Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> bill lam wrote:
>> Sorry this must be a faq but I cannot find any answer in google.
>
> Google?? If you think it's a FAQ, you'd better check the Perl FAQ.
>
>     perldoc -q "insert a line"
>
Within that basic form, add the parts that you need to insert, change,
or delete lines.

To prepend lines to the beginning, print those lines before you enter
the loop that prints the existing lines.

        open my $in,  '<',  $file      or die "Can't read old file: $!";
        open my $out, '>', "$file.new" or die "Can't write new file: $!";

        print "# Add this line to the top\n"; # <--- HERE'S THE MAGIC

        while( <$in> )
                {
                print $out $_;
                }

   close $out;

I was just going over this... but shouldn't it be

print $out "# Add this line to the top\n"; #     ??? or did I miss 
something?

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