J.Shankar:

The Net::Telnet module allows you to talk to a remote computer as if you were manipulating the keyboard. If you're determined to do it via Net::Telnet, then I'd propose coding up something that would send the commands you would use to manually edit the file.

But it would be better if you came up with a better method, such as one of these:

• Mount a share from the remote machine (via NFS, Samba, etc.).
• Use Net::FTP to grab the file and edit locally.
• Write a program to execute on the remote machine to perform the edits.

...roboticus

When your only tool to edit a remote file is Net::Telnet, all problems are harder than they need to be.