I am new to this site and I have a question (sorry about it eating the <CR><LF>, dont know how to fix). I want to write a perl script that gets a list of regular expressions from a file. Example: myscript.pl regexp.txt ascii.txt I know how to write the script with regexp.txt hard coded into myscript.pl. I want to allow the user to specify this at runtime. Below is an example of where I have hardcoded the regexp in the script so you can gauge perl ability. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

open (FILE1, "$ARGV[1]") || warn "The script $0 can't open $ARGV[1]: $
+!\n";
open (FILE1, "$ARGV[0]") || warn "The script $0 can't open $ARGV[0]: $
+!\n";

while (<FILE1>){
  s/f/z/;
  s/h/y/;
  s/there/where/; 
  print $_;
}
close (FILE1);

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Thanks Ascii.txt would look like this: 
foo
bar
here
there

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Then regexp.txt would be like this: 
s/f/z/;
s/h/y/;
s/there/where/;

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In reply to Want to get regexp list from file by perluser456

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