From: Michael Furmaniuk <mfurmaniuk@...>
Date: 2009-04-02T21:16:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Read and modify logs

Srijayanth Sridhar wrote:
> One silly way to achieve what you want is to reopen the file for 
> reading.

I wanted to avoid that as I am using this log file to maintain results 
from other scripts and if the timing goes wrong I might close the file, 
another opens, then I open it again to erase and lose the latest entry. 
Mostly I was wondering if there was a way to do this in one operation.

> Though, I don't see why you can't maintain a hash of all the lines 
> instead
> of having to remove lines from the log file. Its never a good idea to 
> muck
> about with log files.

hmmm...I suppose I could read the file and write out ones I recorded 
with a notation so I skip those in the future.  I'll have to think about 
that.

Thanks
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