OK. First you will get more help if you are not rude. Second it is more efficient to do: 

renane /etc/named.conf /etc/named.conf.bak or die $!;
open BIND, ">/etc/named.conf" or die $!;
print BIND "DeathBunny!";

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I assume that you don't understand the callback/subclassing parsing strategy used by a number of perl parsers. Essentially what happens is that the parser rips through the file and passes the chunks of info it finds to a range of handlers. You will find a simple HTML::Parser example of mine at Re: Tag filtering: a standard mechanism?. This should give you the general idea. You will either be writing to your new file from these callback subs or storing the data in a data structure of your choosing for later post processing and file write.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Reading and *writing* configuration files by tachyon
in thread Reading and *writing* configuration files by DeathBunny

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