Hello Jimson,
Thursday, September 13, 2001, Jimson Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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JL> Being new to perl, I know how to search for strings. I know how to
JL> explicitly search and replace a string.
you always can use variable instead of exact string.
JL> What I don't know how to do is
JL> search for a string,
in array - grep, as you wrote below.
in string - match, see
perldoc -f m
JL> make that string a variable,
grep function return array of results.
my @results = grep /OAM/i, @lines;
JL> and then use that
JL> variable in a search and replace statement so that I can run this script
JL> at all my sites.
see
perldoc -f grep
(grep can do replace for you), or
perldoc -f s
perldoc perlop
JL> Here's what I'm using to search for a string...
JL> open FILE, "<config.cfg" or die "can't open config.cfg: $!";
JL> my @lines = <FILE>;
JL> print grep /OAM/i, @lines;
JL> When I run this against config.cfg, it gives me the string OAM... Can I
JL> make that a variable?
yes :)
Best wishes,
Maxim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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