I'm trying to convert a FILEHANDLE to a string so I can search and replace text and then rewrite the file. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $file = "/var/www/html/acs/new/index.html";
my $file_bu = "/var/www/html/acs/new/index_bu.html";

open (FILE, "+<$file") or die "Can't open file: $!";
open (FILE_BU, ">$file_bu") or die "Can't open file: $!";

# Save a back up of the original file
my @file = <FILE>;
#print "@file\n";
print FILE_BU "@file";
close FILE_BU;

# Convert file to string for search and replace
my $string = do {local $/; <FILE>};
if (defined $string) {print "defined\n"};
print "$string\n";
close FILE;

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Results:

[joev@localhost test]$ ./file_handle.pl
defined

[joev@localhost test]$

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Why does nothing get printed out for $string even though it is defined? I expected $string to be printed the same way as print "@file\n";

Is there a better way to accomplish this?

Thanks
Joe

In reply to Converting FILEHANDLE to string by joev

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