Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Im writing a program that needs to call vi or something similar, to edit a text file. Do I need to use the system function, or something that sends commands directly to the operating system? I want vi to do something like delete a line or something simple. Thanks

Edit: 2001-03-03 by neshura

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RE: running vi from perl
by vroom (His Eminence) on Feb 07, 2000 at 06:29 UTC