After rolling a FORMAT oneliner! :) I echo'd this into a file. Now my laziness is starting to niggle and I decide it is about time to edit in place those semicolons into newlines rather than doing this manually.

After clobbering the file a number of times. I could not get a 'simple' s/// or tr/// to operate on a perl -ni -e command. I eventually split the looping stdin file at the semi-colons and joined with newlines, and this was fine. But I wonder why I wasn't able to s/// or y/// on a looping file? some examples:

file to which one-liner echo'd

#! \usr\bin\perl

use strict;
use warnings;

"my $fs = q!.\funkisym.pm!;open(FUNKISYM, q(>),qq($fs)); my $flashbang
+ = q{#! \usr\bin\perl};my $pra = q!use strict;!; my $pra2 = q!use war
+nings;!;my @fstr = (q(format  FUNKISYM = ),q(@).q(<) x 16,q($flashban
+g).qq(\n),q(@).q(<) x 11,q($pra),q(@).q(<) x 13,q($pra2),qq(.\n));eva
+l(join($/,@fstr));select FUNKISYM;write;exec(qq!notepad\.exe $fs!);"

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attempted commands which either clobbered file and/or produced bareword deaths on tr///

perl -n -i.bak -e "tr/;/\n/;" .\funkisym.pm
perl -n -i.bak -e "y/\Q;\E/\n/;" .\funkisym.pm
perl -n -i.bak -e "s/(;)/$1\n/g;" .\funkisym.pm

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I tried variations further to those shown, and settled for the following solution;

perl -ni.bak -e "my @text = split(q{;});print join(qq(;$/), @text);" .
+\funkisym.pm"

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Please can you suggest what I may be assuming incorrectly, in relation to this problem?

In reply to s/// + tr/// when perl -ni -e on semi-colons in one liners echoed to files by Don Coyote

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