I have been away from Perl for almost 2 years and now I find myself needing a quick, elegant solution for what should be a simple problem.

I have a file that comtains records delimited by crlf (0D0A). In this file there are extra crlf's. The extra ones are always followed by || (two pipes).

I am trying to replace the "\n||" with a simple "||".

Here's what I'm doing. It's not working. 

#! /usr/bin/perl
$datafile=@ARGV[0];
my $data;
{
  local($/) = undef;
  open (FILE, "<$datafile");
  $data = <FILE>;
  close FILE;
  
  $data =~ s/\x0d\x0a\x7c\x7c/\x7c\x7c/sg;
  
  if ($data =~ m/\x0d\x0a\x7c\x7c/) {
     print "FOUND IT!\n";
  } else {
     print "DIDN'T FIND IT.\n";
  }
  
  open (OUTFILE, ">$datafile");
  print OUTFILE $data, "-Damn";
  close OUTFILE;
}

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Chuckularone

In reply to A serch and replace question by ChuckularOne

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