You are not saving the changes to the file...
Try something like this
open NOTE, "c:\\data.txt" or die "Can't open data.txt: $!";
open OUT, ">c:\\out.txt" or die "Can't create out.txt: $!";
while (<NOTE>) {
s/;/\n/g;
print OUT;
}
close NOTE;
close OUT;
-----Original Message-----
From: Veeraraju_Mareddi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 07 September 2001 10:36
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Regex s///
Dear All
I have a large data file which has ; as delimiter and i want this to be
replaced newline character ,but unfortunately my script is not working
my code is given below
####################################################
open(NOTE ,">>c:\\data.txt"); #data file
while (<NOTE>)
{
s/;/"\n"/;
}
close(NOTE);
#######################################################
It doesn't report any error task is not being performed
Please help me.
Thanks and Reagrds
Raju
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