Heh, liked the "Outlook is silly" flag. Anyway, the difference has to do with newlines. Under Win32, ActivePerl prints "\n" as "\r\n". Cygwin (depending on how you have its filesystems configured) prints "\n" as "\n". Check the size of your output files. For a two line file, I would expect there is a 2 byte difference in size.
You could also do this under Cygwin: diff -b outfileAP outfileCyg The -b option ignores differences in whitespace. Or you could run a dos2unix program on your outfileAP file to end up with exactly the same file as outfileCyg. -- Mike Arms -----Original Message----- From: Steve Harper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Search and replace one-liners in ActivePerl broken? Can someone please tell me why the following doesn't work? Observe: In Windows 2000 CMD.exe, with ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 Build 631 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D:\>copy con testtextfile.txt This is this, that is that Thats all folks! ^Z 1 file(s) copied. D:\>perl -pi.bak -e 's/this/that/g' testtextfile.txt D:\>md5sum test* ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt.bak D:\>rm *.bak ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now, lets try that in Cygwin w/ it's perl v5.6.1... Administrator@PSIONIC /cygdrive/d $ perl -pi.bak -e 's/this/that/g' testtextfile.txt Administrator@PSIONIC /cygdrive/d $ md5sum test* 74d5c5e10b51b882fa5438a4f99cc111 *testtextfile.txt ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt.bak Administrator@PSIONIC /cygdrive/d $ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm fairly perplexed by this difference in behaviour, I've read a fair amount in the documentation to try to figure this out, but nothing I've seen has really answered my question. I'm sure its something stupid, like shell differences, but it seems like the perl runtime is getting everything it needs here and is still not making the changes to the file. Thanks in advance for any help on this. Steve Harper Software Developer Campus Student Computing University Of Utah _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
