Thanks Danny I must be doing something else wrong, I bet its variable scope, Im just getting my head around it
Colin -----Original Message----- From: Danny Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 17:13 To: Johnstone, Colin Subject: RE: Regex help!! Your regex is right, the substitution works...on my system at least. Regards, Danny -----Original Message----- From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: FW: Regex help!! Further to my previous message. after fixing the ~= I get the following. I know $screenOutput has a value because I see the html contained in the file Im reading on the screen its just not doing the substitution. please advise. Colin -----Original Message----- From: Johnstone, Colin Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 17:00 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Regex help!! Hi all, Im reading in a file line by line and I want to look for the occurence of this string <!-- response here --> in $line. Is this the right way to do it. If it finds it it is to inser the value of $screenOutput in its place. if($screenOutput ne ""){ my $responsePage = ""; open(IN, "<$locationResponsePageSkin") or die("Cannot open: $!"); while( my $line = <IN>){ $line ~= s/<!-- response here -->/$screenOutput/; $responsePage .= $line; } close(IN); print $responsePage; } Colin Johnstone Website Project Officer Corporate Website Unit Public Affairs Directorate ph 9561 8643 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
