In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>In my code I am not understanding why my in place edit does not work? Here
>is my code:
>
>use strict;
>use diagnostics;
>use warnings;
Good!
>my stps="/usr/local/log/scratchtps";
>
> open (TP, ">$stps") || die "could not open file:$!";
> open (TP2, ">$irmt ") || die "could not open file:$!";
> open (D, "$logf") || die "could not open file:$!";
> ($^I, @ARGV) = ('.bak', $scratchtps);
I think you copied this line from somewhere without understanding it.
> print TP "\n";
> print TP "Print Date: $dm\n";
> print TP "EDM Scratch Tapes. Please have these returned from
>IronMt.\n";
> print TP "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>- -\n";
>
> while (<D>) {
>
> ## look for 9840S and ebexpire
> ## declare OFS = tab
> ## tell split to split on IRS 0,1&5.
>
> if ( (($_ =~ /9840S/) && ($_ =~ /ebexpire, ebexpire/)) &&
>(($_ =~ $dm) || ($_ =~ $dmm)) ) {
> local $, = "\t";
> print TP +(split)[0,1,5], $/ ;
> print TP2 +(split)[5], $/ ;
> system ("sort -k3 $stps > $scratchtps");
> system ("sort -k3 $irmt > $IRMTscratchtps");
> }
> }
> close (TP);
> close (TP2);
> close (D);
Nowhere do you use the contents of @ARGV. In-place edit only works
when you use the diamond operator (<>) for I/O, and you haven't.
So, having defined $^I and set @ARGV, you then need a loop:
while (<>) {
# Do something with $_
# print something to default filehandle
}
Whatever you print to the default filehandle inside that loop will
go to the new file.
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