Re: help on replacing text in a file

2007-11-01 Thread John W . Krahn
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 h

help on replacing text in a file

2007-11-01 Thread boxingcat
/ 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 @inputfile= ("string1"); # need to have an arrary later @outputfile=("string2"); @attfile=("file3.dat"); $mytempfile=$inputfile[0]

help on replacing text in a file

2007-11-01 Thread boxingcat
I would like to replace string 1 with string 2 in file3.dat, here is what I did: #!/usr/bin/perl @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