ok, i've switched to line by line... but it's still not removing the line breaks. 
#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe 

use strict;
use File::Find;
use File::Slurp;
use Time::Local;

print "\nRunning find-slurp_search-within.pl... \n\n";

my $root = "C:/";  # use forward slash, you can use mapped drives.
print "changing to $root\n";
chdir $root;       
my $no_switches=0;
my $no_files=0;
my @log = ();
my $dir;

# find (\&Wanted, "department", "managers", "mybranch", "mycity", "myi
+nfo", "resources"); 
find (\&Wanted, "working");  #directories - comman delimited
sub Wanted {
  print "*Processing: $root$File::Find::name \n";
   if ($_ =~ /\.htm(l)?$/i) {
      open(xFILE,$_) or die "ERROR: couldn't open file";
      my @file = <xFILE>;
      my $line;
      foreach $line (@file) {
         if ($line =~ m/(<meta[\s\r\n\t]+name="revision"[\s\r\n\t]+con
+tent=$)/im) {
            print $line;
        chomp($line);
            close (xFILE);
            $no_switches++;
        } # end if
      }
    $no_files++;
    } #end if matches filetype
    else { print "file type not processed\n\n"; }  #add $_ if you want
+ to see URL of file not processed.
} # end sub  

# add timestamp, # files, # matches to log
open(LOG, ">H:/Web/perl/log.txt")  or die "ERROR: Can't open log.txt";
my $timestamp = localtime();
print LOG "$no_files files - $no_switches matches - $timestamp\n";
foreach(@log) {    print LOG; }
close (LOG);
print "log file updated. $no_files files - $no_switches matches";

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In reply to Re^2: remove line break from 1 line by Anonymous Monk
in thread remove line break from 1 line by djbryson

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