Hi Monks,

I'm having trouble with a simple search and replace. I'm searching and replacing a string in the file. The substitution is correct, however, I can't get it to make changes in the file. Everytime I make changes nothing gets changed in the actual file. Can anyone help? Thanks. I have the following code: 

#! /usr/bin/perl;

use File::Copy;
#! /usr/bin/perl;

use File::Copy;

$^I = '~';
open (IN, "file.txt");

s/To: [\.\@\D\,]*/To: someone\@email.com/ while <IN>;
close(IN);

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I also tried this which didnt change the actual file either: 
open (INFILE, "<$dirContent");
open (OUTFILE, "<$dirContent");
while (my $row = <INFILE>) {
    if($row =~ /Cc:/){
       $row =~ s/Cc: [\.\@\D\,]*//;
        print OUTFILE $row;
    }
    if( $row =~/^To:/){
    $row =~s/^To: [\.\@\D\,]*/To:email\@mail.com/;
        print OUTFILE $row;
    }
    print OUTFILE $row;}
}
close (INFILE);
close (OUTFILE);

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thanks~
jc

In reply to replacing in file by jc23

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