Beloved Brethren and Sistren:

I am trying to do what should be a simple substitution, replacing text such as 'http://www.example.com' with a single space. I would have thought that this would do it: $file =~s/http\S+/ /ig;. The goal is to detect 'http' followed by one or more non-whitespace characters. Alas, the substitution doesn't occur, and the unwanted text remains untouched. What am I doing wrong? I seem to be running into a dead end here.

Update: OK, an example of the input follows:

Why pay big bucks? Create your OWN website now! 
All best software! 

New software on our site:

Illustrator CS - $69.95

# ... Many more lines of this stuff...

Visio 2003 Professional - $69.95

Our site:
http://polardd.com

[download]

This is the input text (one of several files). It is also the output text. I view this using Microsoft Wordpad. I am comforted to find that my code isn't completely off... but of course, I still haven't figured out what the problem actually is... Thanks for the responses, though.

Update 2: I may be a contender for the OT: most egregious programming error, ever award. I was trying to do the substitution on the file name, not the text within the file. I hang my head in shame and will do penance.

In reply to s/// to replace HTTP address with a space by spiritway

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