Greetings;
Just for future reference, the Windows command line is not
good for perl things. The use of quotes and escapes is
mostly undocumented and from experience I can say that even
when you think you have it figured out you will find another
situation where it doesn't work. It only takes a few secs
longer to create a file and run it. And that also saves you
the problems associated with command line editing to fix
your mistakes.
You can install CyqWin pretty quickly and it has a much
better command line / shell than native windows.
Good Luck!
Dennis
>}On Feb 12, 18:04, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote:
>} Subject: windows perl just doesn't seem to work
>
>Hello - I am very frustrated - after quite a while I can't get my ActivePerl
>to work on anything in windows. Say I want to find the word Good and change
>it to Bad in the file MyFile.asc
>
>I try:
>
>C:\changeIt.pl -e "s/Good/Bad/" MyFile.asc
>
>Then open MyFile.asc and nothing happens - then I try this:
>
># this is a script to clean
>
>open(IN,"fileToClean.asc") || die "can't open!";
>
>while(<IN>) {
> s/Good/Bad/;
> print;
>}
>
>On the screen I can see that this is working, but when I open the file,
>guess what? Nothing has changed! I tried a question on this same topic
>awhile ago and everybody said that they got it to work in cgywin and unix
>etc - I'll try again - can anybody figure out what I am doing wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>
>tim
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