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Re: Parsing a comma delimited file
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Feb 13, 2003 at 14:24 UTC 
    perl -pi.bak -e 's/,/|/g' <file>

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    tachyon

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Re: Parsing a comma delimited file
by jasonk (Parson) on Feb 13, 2003 at 14:28 UTC

    Never use backslashes in filenames, even on windows, if you change c:\doclist.chr to c:/doclist.chr and change c:\doclist.txt to c:/doclist.txt, you won't get that error (although there are many easier ways to do what you are attempting).

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      Never use backslashes in filenames

      Why not? This works fine: 

      $filename = "C:\\foo.txt";

# as does this
$filename = 'C:\foo.txt';

# but this won't because perl thinks the \ relates to the '
$path = 'C:\some\path\';
$fullpath = $path . $filename;

# however this is fine
$path = "C:\\some\\path\\";

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      For more on this subject see Paths in Perl

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      tachyon

      s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

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