--Original Message Text--- From: FlashMX Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:42:55 -0500
Hi Charles, You input has helped greatly...thanks Things have kinda changed in the last few days in the way I need to do my script. Previsouly I was reading in an external file. Checking for a certain match and then replacing some text while at the same time writing the results out to a temoporary file. This all works great but I have to do another approach. How would I do the following: Read an external file which has a list of other external files listed within. Like this. external file contents ------------------------- S: 1 F: file1.txt S: 2 F: file2.txt S: 3 F: file3.txt S: 4 F: file4.txt S: 5 F: file5.txt Then I need to open each file from the list one at a time and check for a certain string match. If found, do a search and replace and write the results out to a temoporary file (file1.tmp). Then rename that file back to the original (file1.txt). Then continue to the next line until the end has been reached. I can't figure out the logic for this. Can you help? Thanks
