Okay guys. I seem to be handling the exercises from the llama with varying degrees of success. But as soon as I try a 'real life application of Perl, I just lose it!

I tried writing this simple little script to remove the e-mail quoting ('>') from messages.

This is what I came up with. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

while (<>) {
  
   s/^>//g;

}

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Pretty simple, right? Well, all that does is obliterate, simply clobber the file. Any idea what's wrong with the search and replace? Any help with this regex would be greatly appreciated.

thx!

In reply to Remove '>' from email by bluethundr

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