Re: change one line in a large fine

[email protected] (Will Mengarini via beginners)
Newsgroups perl.beginners
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
* [email protected] <[email protected]> [22-11/20=Su 09:58 +0100]:
> I have a large file which has millions of lines.  They are text
> only lines.  If I have to change one line in the file, what's the
> efficient way?  I don't want to slurp the whole file into memory,
> change that line and write the full content back to disk again.

See the built-in functions sysopen, sysread, sysseek, syswrite.
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