in reply to find and replace in perl

$string =~ s/$pattern/$replace/g

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Re^2: find and replace in perl
by torres09 (Acolyte) on Jun 24, 2013 at 06:15 UTC
    hey

    can't we do the find and replace operation via perl on the entire text file , without taking it into an array

    like say find and replace on a file handler . sorry I am new to perl , so I don't have a lot of command on it

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      perl -pi.bak -e 's/pattern/replace/g' filename.txt

      Dave

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[d/l]

      sorry I am new to perl

      :) I read perlintro every day, and I'm very old to perl :)

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