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 (<>) { # ... } } -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]