>> my $txt = do { local $/; <FILE> };
Just on a side note, has any1 tried to get the MAX FILE SIZE that
can be slurped into a scalar variable? Is there any limit? Where
can i get such info??
Regards
~A
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Anish Kumar K. wrote:
> > I want to replace a text from a file say a.txt.
> >
> > a.txt contains
> >
> > line1: this is
> > line 2: a
> > line 3: apple
> >
> > I wanted to replace to "this is an orange"..
> >
> > When I see perl change.pl <FILENAME>
> >
> > it shld change all the occurence of "this is a apple" to "this is an
> > orange". Not that this search text can be split in multilines.
> > Do perl have some inbulit functions to do the same.
>
> The s/// operator (see "perldoc perlop") is a suitable tool for doing
> that. Since you need to search over several lines, it's probably best to
> slurp the file as one single string into a scalar variable:
>
> my $txt = do { local $/; <FILE> };
>
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