I've been able to read and output the external file containing the file
listing.
I've been told to do a "foreach" Would this go after the "while" or in place of?
open READFILE, "< file.in" or die qq(Cannot open file "file.in": $!);
while ($line = <READFILE>) {
print $line;
}
}
close (READFILE);
Things have kinda changed in the last few days in the way I need to do my
script. Previsouly I was reading in an external file. Checking for a certain
match and then
replacing some text while at the same time writing the results out to a
temoporary file. This all works great but I have to do another approach.
How would I do the following:
Read an external file which has a list of other external files listed within.
Like this.
external file contents
-------------------------
S: 1 F: file1.txt
S: 2 F: file2.txt
S: 3 F: file3.txt
S: 4 F: file4.txt
S: 5 F: file5.txt
Then I need to open each file from the list one at a time and check for a
certain string match. If found, do a search and replace and write the results
out to a temoporary file
(file1.tmp). Then rename that file back to the original (file1.txt). Then
continue to the next line until the end has been reached.
I can't figure out the logic for this. Can you help?
Thanks
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