Brian Volk wrote: > >>From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >># store the files to "edit" in @ARGV >>@ARGV = map { chomp; "$dir/$_" } <BAD>; >> >># set the in-place edit variable >># cannot be '' on Windows >>$^I = '.bak'; >> >># modify the files and save the originals with .bak extention >>while ( <> ) { >> s & http://.* & descriptions/product/MSDS/$file &; >> print; >> } > > John.. Thank you for the reply! Just a couple of things I don't > understand... > > 1.) > # set the in-place edit variable > > # cannot be '' on Windows > > $^I = '.bak'; > > This worked great on WinXP but when I went home and tried it on Linux it did > not work. Which is what, I'm sure your comments ment.. :~) How would I > write $^I = '.bak'; on Linux?
I have used it many times on Linux and it has worked for me. What does "it did not work" mean exactly? > 2.) The subsitution didn't work on some of the files... could this have to > do w/ CR or LF? It could be anything, it is hard to tell without seeing the actual program and data. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
