Hello All, Very new to perl here and I'm trying how to figure out how I can do a character match and character substitution on characters at the beginning of a sting. What I have is a file with a list of file names and I want to take all of the file names that start with "s" and change the name to start with "_S"? Here is the script that I have so far. It dies with syntax errors.
Thanks in advance for the help.
George 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $fname;

open FNAMES,"</var/tmp/flist";
while ( $fname = <FNAMES> )
{
        chomp ($fname)
# Does the string start with an "s"?
        if ( /^$fname/ eq "s" )
        {
        # how do I do the substitution??
        printf "hello\n";
        }
}

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In reply to How do I do character substitution on strings stored in a variable by gcebulka

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