On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Alpesh Naik<naik.alp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For eg: below is what I have in the config file "configfile.cfg". > > Key1=OldValue1 > Key2=OldValue2 > > I want to search for "Key1" and change "OldValue1" to "NewValue1"
Read the content into memory, search the key (i.e, use a regex) and replace the value, then write back to the original file. > > *(Note that, permission of config file is 600, i want to edit the file > without changing permissions)* You couldn't unless using a wrapper like sudo. Jenn. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
