Suneel Kumar B <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi Goodies,
Wow! We're a snack food! :)
: I have a situation where in, iam updating a file by replacing few
: strings in some lines with another string. While doing this, Can i
: have an option by which i could open a file for both read and
: write simultaneously, so that i could search and replace the
: string straight away..??
Sounds like you need in place editing. Check out the -i switch
in the 'perlrun' documentation for an example.
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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