----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Charley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: perl.beginners
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: reading commandline parameters and <>
> > I am sorry I did not give the real situation before, I want to execute
> > this on command line like
> >
> > perl -pe 's/$ARGV[1]/$ARGV[2]/' filename OLDSTR NEWSTR
> >
> > Is this possible ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ram
>
>
> Why not
>
> perl -pe 's/OLDSTR/NEWSTR/' filename
Sorry, To do it your way:
perl -pe 'BEGIN{$y=pop;$x=pop} s/$x/$y/' filename OLDSTR NEWSTR
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