Hi I'm an newbie to perl and i have an issue with reading mailids from text file and passing it into mailx command before the mail id were hard coded.As the number of ids have increased we are planning it read from txt file which has the id's I have the below code it works fine but i want to do it in a better way can any one help me.
Contents of pp.txt is as below. asabast@xyz.com pxpx@xyz.com jxbx@xyz.com And the out put i want is asasbast\@xyz.com pxpx\@xyz.com jxbx\@xyz.com $file = "pp.txt" ; open (FH ,$file) || die ("could not openfile"); while (<FH>) { $_ =~ s/\s+$//; s/\@/\\@/; s/.com/.com /; $line = $_; print $line; } close (FH);
Thanks in advance. Johny

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