Hi,

Is there an even cooler way to this?

Here I am reading the file keywords.txt. the format is:

filename minus extension \t keywords to add to file.

the idea is to open the file (adding .xml) and inserting the keywords element at the 4th line.

Feels like I should be able to localize $^I and make use of the diamond operator to then edit each file in place. 

perl -F'\t' -ane 'open (A, "$F[0].xml"); open(B, ">$F[0]") ;while(<F>)
+ { print B; if ($.==4) { print B "  <keywords> ".substr($F[1],0,-1)."
+ </keywords>\n" ; }} close(A); close(B); unlink("$F[0].xml"); rename(
+$F[0], "$F[0].xml");' keywords.txt

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less is more!

thanks,

Josh

20050930 Janitored by Corion: Added formatting

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