Hi all, I'm new here and must confess my perl knowledge is very limited. I'm trying to use a perl script that will replace a line in an other html file on the same box. Problem is that there are brackets ( ) in the text that I want to replace and I can't find a way to get it to work. Here is my code: 

my $filename = '/tmp/somefile.html';
my $find = "<option SELECTED>[ Current time range ]";

my $replace = '<option SELECTED> Current time';
{
   local @ARGV = ($filename);
   local $^I = '.bac';
   while( <> ){
      if( s/$find/$replace/ig ) {
         print;
      }
      else {
         print;
      }
   }
}

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In reply to How to replace a piece of text containing brackets in an external file by cre8tor

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