in reply to In place editing of text files

ok some years have passed, but I don't see File::Slurp mentioned here which provide edit_file and edit_file_lines. 
# replace all occurrences in the file
edit_file { s/foo/bar/gs } myfile.txt> 
# replace occurrences a line at a time
edit_file_lines { s/foo/bar/g } myfile.txt>

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that said, I see Tie::File mentioned here which looks like a better solution for my case.

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Re^2: In place editing of text files
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 23, 2016 at 07:49 UTC
    File::Slurp is no longer recommended. TLDR: It doesn't work well with encodings, is poorly maintained, and its default options are seldom needed.

    ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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