On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:03, Robert Davies wrote:
> I think it's a good suggestion, and it's not just good practice, because
> FILES is not getting flushed, before it's re-opened as FILES2.
>
> Even better would be to open it once, for reading and writing, and write
> first, and then through the same file descriptor read it back. This method
> allows you to delete the written file immediately after opening it.
>
> I forget how easy that is to do in perl(1), you might have to go to lower
> level file I/O or one of the modules to do it.
But actually, if it's just a temporary file being output, can't it just
write to a list in memory instead of writing to disk? That's assuming
there's enough memory, of course...
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