OK, I'm trying to modify a text file based on user input (one variable). The user input stuff works (thanks to suggestions here), but the file input/output keeps not working. The file exists and is populated, and the search pattern is in there, but it's still not modyfying my file. I've got STDERR redirected to a file, but it only gives me the following error when I'm trying to "use Strict;": "Can't use string ("c:\blah.txt") as a symbol ref while "strict refs" in use at c:\console.pl line 20, <STDIN> line 1." No other errors. Without "use Strict;" and removing the "my" references, I get no errors, but it still doesn't work.

Question no. 2: after the file read/write works, I need to generalize the search pattern - ie, instead of "serverport 111" I need it to search for "serverport until the newline". I was thinking something like s/serverport*$/serverport $port\n/ should work, but I'm just checking.

Thanks for your help.

Glenn 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Win32::Console;
use strict;

open(STDERR, ">error.log");

my $con = Win32::Console->new();

$con->Mode(ENABLE_WINDOW_INPUT | ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT | ENABLE_LINE_
+INPUT | ENABLE_ECHO_INPUT | ENABLE_PROCESSED_OUTPUT | ENABLE_WRAP_AT_
+EOL_OUTPUT);

$con->Display;

$con->Write("Please enter the agent ID number: "); 

chomp(my $port = <STDIN>);

$con->Write("The port number to use is $port.\n"); #Debug stuff, this 
+works

open(CONFIG, "+<", "c:\\blah.txt" or die "Can't open blah.txt: $!");
my @configfile = <CONFIG>;
foreach my $configfile (@configfile) {
$configfile =~ s/serverport 111$/serverport $port\n/;
print CONFIG $configfile;
}
close(CONFIG);
close(STDERR);

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