in reply to Re: search and replace with a variable
in thread search and replace with a variable

...but it doesn't. The replacements just end up being blanks. Do note that it works just fine when I declare those variable as direct strings i.e. 

my $fqdn = 'XXXX_NAME_vpn';
my $address = '143.55.67.89';

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Re^3: search and replace with a variable
by ww (Archbishop) on Apr 09, 2014 at 15:43 UTC
    Well, that makes it pretty clear: your problem is in the code you didn't show us; the part by which you obtain and generate the scalars! (possibly need to chomp?)

    check Ln42


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      Here's the entire code. Those values are being read in via CGI. I tried chomp already. See below: 
      #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI;
use Getopt::Long;
use FindBin qw($Bin $Script);

my ($BASE,$NAME)=($Bin,$Script) ;
my ( $fqdn, $address );
my ( @results, $result, $response );
my $sestimeout = 3600;

open(FILE, "<ADDACS.csv") || die "File not found";
my @lines = <FILE>;
close(FILE);


my $q = CGI->new;
my $fqdn = $q->param('fqdn');
chomp $fqdn;
my $address = $q->param('address');
chomp $address;


my @newlines;
foreach(@lines) {
   $_ =~ s/RECORDNAME/$fqdn1/;
   $_ =~ s/RECORDIP/$address/;
   push(@newlines,$_);
}


open(FILE, ">ADDACS1.csv") || die "File not found";
#print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print FILE @newlines;

close(FILE);
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "$address / $fqdn";

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        "Here's the entire code."

        Really? See Re^2: search and replace with a variable. Your "entire code" won't compile because you added use strict; to it before posting, which catches the fact that you misspelled $fqdn on line 27. If it were spelled correctly, the substitution would work as expected. But do read Re^2: search and replace with a variable, because without proper file locking your next bug is only a few web hits away.


        Dave

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        Have you checked to see whether $q->param('fqdn') and $q->param('address') are successful in getting the strings you want?
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