Re^2: find and replace in perl

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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Re^3: find and replace in perl by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 24, 2013 at 06:18 UTC
`perl -pi.bak -e 's/pattern/replace/g' filename.txt` Dave	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: find and replace in perl by Anonymous Monk on Jun 24, 2013 at 07:35 UTC
sorry I am new to perl :) I read perlintro every day, and I'm very old to perl :)	[reply]