On Aug 5, Vinay Thombre said: >I am novice to Perl and learning very basic things. I want to replace a text >in a file with new text. I want to do it programatically. How can I do that?
I hope you've got a good book or two, such as "Learning Perl" (the llama book) published by O'Reilly. The basic setup you'll want to use is this: open INPUT, "< in.txt" or die "can't read in.txt: $!"; open OUTPUT, "> out.txt" or die "can't write out.txt: $!"; while (my $line = <INPUT>) { # do something to $line print OUTPUT $line; } close OUTPUT; close INPUT; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]