Hello TonyNY,

Fellow Monks have provided you with a solution to your problem. Just for fun you can use also the module File::Slurp.

Sample code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Slurp qw(read_file write_file);

my $filename = 'in.txt';

my $data = read_file $filename, {binmode => ':utf8'};
$data =~ s/The action failed\./failed_build/g;
write_file $filename, {binmode => ':utf8'}, $data;

__END__

$ cat in.txt
one
two
The action failed.
three
The action failed.  twice The action failed.
four

$ cat in.txt
one
two
failed_build
three
failed_build  twice failed_build
four
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As fellow Monk choroba said File::Slurp is broken and wrong, instead you can use the File::Slurper.

Sample of code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Slurper qw(read_text write_text);

my $filename = 'in.txt';

my $data = read_text($filename);
$data =~ s/The action failed\./failed_build/g;
write_text($filename, $data);

__END__

$ cat in.txt
one
two
The action failed.
three
The action failed.  twice The action failed.
four

$ cat in.txt
one
two
failed_build
three
failed_build  twice failed_build
four
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Or mu personal favorite IO::All, sample of code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::All -utf8; # Turn on utf8 for all io

my $contents = io->file('in.txt')->slurp;
$contents =~ s/The action failed\./failed_build/g;
$contents > io('in.txt');

__END__

$ cat in.txt
one
two
The action failed.
three
The action failed.  twice The action failed.
four

$ cat in.txt
one
two
failed_build
three
failed_build  twice failed_build
four
[download]

BR / Thanos