Hello, it's my first post so please be gentle ;+} I've just installed Activestate Perl for Windows 5.16.3. I have a text file with a list of names (lower case). I want to replace every occurence of the name 'gary' with the name 'harry'. On the command line i am typing : perl -i.bak -p -e 's/gary/harry/g;' file.txt It returns with no errors but the new file is the same as the old file - no changes have been made. To be honest i don't even know what the -p and -e switches are doing, i'm assuming -i is just for renaming the output file ? Also i don't know what the 's' and 'g' do in the replace bit! Any help greatly appreciated, perlynoob.

In reply to Text not being replaced in file via Windows CLI ... by perlynoob

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