You can do it right at the command line... ** make a backup of the file first just in case!! **
perl -pi -e "s|replace this text|with this text|g" somefile.txt It will open somefile.txt, run the regex on each line of the file, and replace the current file with the updated text. Take a look at the perlrun manpage for details on thw switches. Rob -----Original Message----- From: David Stoltz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Search & Replace Is there a way to open a text file in PERL, and search through it, replacing a certain string with another string? Thanks- _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
