Hi!

I guess all of us have told him too much about learning Perl and studying at school. Enougn is said and done. He should realize he has to learn basics of Perl if he wants to pass the course. It's up to him to decide what to do with his own life. We did all we could to help him. I think the time has come to let him do whatever he wants to do with the solution of the assignment.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

print "First_name Last_name\n";

foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
        open(FILE, "<$file");

        if( $file eq "file1" ) {
                $file="sysbacks/file1";
        } elsif ( $file eq "file2" ) {
                $file="alpha/file2"
        } elsif ( $file eq "file3" ) {
                $file="gamma/blue/file3";
        } elsif ( ($file eq "file4") || ( $file eq "file5" ) ) {
                $file="gamma/green/$file";
        }

        open(OUTPUT, ">$file");

        while(<FILE>) {
                s/xxx/ggg/gi;
                s/alpha/ALPHA/g;
                print OUTPUT;
        }

        close(FILE);
        close(OUTPUT);
}

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P.S. Tested on perl 5.6.1 build for i386-freebsd
P.S.S. It's been written this way to make his professor believe he wrote it.
P.S.S.S. I think his prof won't understand jonadab's solution. I don't expect him to be a perlmonk. I might be wrong. I'm sorry I didn't want to offend him.

In reply to Re: Solution for your prof by nikos
in thread <> diamond Operator by kocaweb

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