Hi all,
I am trying to search for a string in FILE1 and then split it and then use the result to search FILE2
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "This is test perl program\n";
open ( FILE1,"</test/file1.pl") or die "cannot open $?:$!";
while (<FILE1>){
    $i= s/apple/APPLE/;
#just replacing apple with APPLE
#this works fine
   if($i){
        $test1=$_;
    }
}
close FILE1;
print "test1 =$test1\n"; 
#this has the the whole line which is of #the form a b

($a,$b)=split(/\s/,$test1,2);
print "b=$b\n";

open (FILE2,"</temp/file2.pl") or die "cannot open $?:$!";
while (<FILE2>){
    $i= s/$b/MANGO/e;
# This part doesn't work

print $_;
   if($i){
        $test2=$_;

   }
}
close FILE2;
#print "$test2";
($c,$d)=split(/\s/,$test2,2);
print "d= $d\n";

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the contents of file1he 

ap878ple mango
1apple me45ango
a4pple mat5ngo
apple mango
a2pple ma43ngo
a4pple mat5ngo

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the contents of file2

mandfgo andwefrwehra
maafweewngo andhvwera
mango pineapple
masvffngo anewfwdhra

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Main purpose of the code is given apple I want to search file1 and file2 and find pineapple. the variable $b doesnt seem to work well in the search.

Thanks in advance. Ravi

20060429 Janitored by Corion: Cleaned up formatting, added code tags

In reply to using variable in search and replace by ravi1980

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