Re^6: Delete a line from files

what is wrong with first opening the file with open and then setting those variables?

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Re^7: Delete a line from files by choroba (Cardinal) on Oct 13, 2015 at 10:27 UTC
It doesn't work. The diamond operator opens the file and reads from it at the same time, you can't first open the file and then set the variable. Check the difference yourself: `perl -pwe '$^I = ".bak"; s/[<>]/\|/g' file1 perl -pwe 'BEGIN { $^I = ".bak" } s/[<>]/\|/g' file2` [download] لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l]