PERL BEGINNERS 21 RE HOW TO REPLACE A TEXT IN A FILE
Subject: Re: How to replace a text in a file
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:05:35 +0530

From: vinay_thombre@no-spam (Vinay Thombre)

I want in.txt and out.txt file to be same.
That is I want to replcae text insa me file and do not want to create a new file.
Thanks,
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From: "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" (japhy@no-spam)
To: "Vinay Thombre" <vinay_thombre@no-spam>
Cc: <beginners@no-spam>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: How to replace a text in a file

> On Aug 5, Vinay Thombre said:
>
> >I am novice to Perl and learning very basic things. I want to replace a text > >in a file with new text. I want to do it programatically. How can I do that?
>
> I hope you've got a good book or two, such as "Learning Perl" (the llama > book) published by O'Reilly.
>
> The basic setup you'll want to use is this:
>
> open INPUT, "< in.txt" or die "can't read in.txt: $!";
> open OUTPUT, "> out.txt" or die "can't write out.txt: $!";
> while (my $line = <INPUT>) {
> # do something to $line > print OUTPUT $line;
> }
> close OUTPUT;
> close INPUT;
>
> -- > Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@no-spam http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
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>
>