This worked. This is perfect solution. Thanks very much. Regards Jay
-----Original Message----- From: Connie Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 4:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: search and replace in a file > [...] > > $file = $ARGV[0]; > open (INPUT, "$file"); > open (OUTPUT, ">$file.out"); > $replacestr=/class/mtm/php; > $replacewith=CLASS_PHP; Try this : while (<INPUT>) { s/\b$replacestr\b/$replacewith/g ; print OUTPUT $_ } close (OUTPUT); close (INPUT); Rgds, Connie
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