On Thursday 01 November 2007 11:25, boxingcat wrote:
> / Sorry if it is a repost. didn't see the first one in the group.
>
>
> I would like to replace string 1 with string 2 in file3.dat, here is
> what I did:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
> @inputfile= ("string1"); # need to have an arrary later
> @outputfile=("string2");
> @attfile=("file3.dat");
>
> $mytempfile=$inputfile[0];
> $youtempfile=$outputfile[0];
> $hisfile=$attfile[0];
>
> perl -pi -e 's/$mytempfile/$youtempfile/' $hisfile;
You are trying to run an external program in perl (this is not a shell
script.)
perldoc -f system
perldoc -f qx
perldoc -f open
However you can do what you want directly in perl:
{ local ( $^I, @ARGV ) = ( '', $attfile[ 0 ] );
while ( <> ) {
s/$inputfile[0]/$outputfile[0]/;
print;
}
}
John
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