Deleting Contents of File

abdul_zu · 12-04-2005, 05:44 AM

Hi friends,

How i can delete the whole contents of file using Perl script. I don't want to delete the file itself becuase the file is already used with some application. So i need to delete the whole contents of file.

Thank you for your time
Abdul Lateef

homey · 12-04-2005, 07:51 AM

Here's how I do it from the command line. You could put that in the script somewhere...

Code:

>file.txt
or
echo >file.txt

phil.d.g · 12-04-2005, 08:58 AM

You can do it like this I think

Code:

open(FD, ">path/to/file") || die("Can't open file");
close(FD);

abdul_zu · 12-04-2005, 02:12 PM

Hi,

Both are working well. and i used the last option becuase this is more close to my application.

Thank you very much for your times.