On Aug 16, 7:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am a beginner in Perl..
That must be why you seen to be unaware of the perldoc command. > I need a perl script to open a file from a specific folder where the > script is. perldoc -f open > Note:That folder will always have one file but with different name and > with same extension. perldoc -f glob > I also have to get the name of that file and rename it by adding some > characters to the old name of the file perldoc -f rename > after doing some data manipulation in that file. There are many ways to do that, and you didn't give any details upon which to base a recommendation. If you want to do an inplace edit then I recommend this approach: perldoc -m Tie::File -- The best way to get a good answer is to ask a good question. David Filmer (http://DavidFilmer.com) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/