On Jan 9, Yacketta, Ronald said:

>is their another trick to forgo the 4 lines above the "local @ARGV" ??

The ARGV trick is meant to AVOID the for loop.

>                        foreach $file (@sleepystart) {
>                                open FILE, "$file";
>                                $line = <FILE>;
>                                close (FILE);
>                                chomp($line);
>                                local @ARGV = @sleepystart;
>                                while (<>) {
>                                        s/\Q$line\E/$db_name/g;
>                                        print;
>                                }
>                        }

To loop over the files, just do:

  {
    local @ARGV = @sleepystart;
    while (<>) {
      # ...
    }
  }

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