Hi fellow monastery dwellers
I have a problem that should be easy to solve, but eludes me. I have a bunch of files of the form
test
test 1
test 2

and I want to modify these to
test 1.0
test 1
test 2

I am using the following code
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# the goal of this script is to change test in line 1 of files to test
+ 1.0
my $txtfile;
#while (<*.TXT>){
foreach $txtfile (glob("*.TXT")) {
    print $txtfile;
    print "\n";
    open FILE, "$txtfile";
    open NEWFILE, ">$txtfile.tmp";
    while (<FILE>){
 if ($. == 1){
     $_ =~ s/$_/$_ 1.0/g;
     }
 print NEWFILE $_;
    }
    close FILE;
    close NEWFILE;

}

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However this gives me something of the form
test
   1.0test 1
test 2

The first line is not always test, but I do want to retain whatever is there and just add a space and 1.0. I know womewhere I should be chomping of a newline and adding one to the 1.0 .. or at least that is what the output indicates. Does anyone have any pointers

Thanks

Deepak

"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?"-Sherlock Holmes in 'A study in scarlet'

In reply to appending to a particular line in a file by mndoci

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