Hi there! Sorry I am really new in perl, but maybe you can help me out? Just tried to replace a string called "test" by "replace" in a txt file. I executed it in windows(skript below) and in unix(with different path). Result was, that he is not showing any error, but also not doing anything. What did I do wrong? Text File name is just a.txt and perl skript is a.pl a.txt includes: test a.pl (in windows) says: ######################################################## 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;


my $S="C:Users\name\Desktop\a.txt";


open(FILE, "<$S") || die "File not found";

my @lines = <FILE>;
close(FILE);


my @newlines;
foreach(@lines) {
 
  $_ =~ s/<test>/replace/g;
 
  push(@newlines,$_);
}

open(FILE, "$S") || die "File not found";

print FILE @newlines;

close(FILE);


#################################################

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Can you help me out on that? I am so desperate :-( Thanks in advance!

In reply to no reaction on string replace by semipro

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