Hi,

I'm trying to get Perl to write the contents of a template file with $variables to another file, with those $'s expanded out...

Currently, my function looks like this:
sub make_apachectl
{
    my $apachectl = shift;
    my $dname = shift;
    
    my $apachectl_template = "/home/www/bin/files/bin/apachectl";
    
    open( TEMPLATE, "<", $apachectl_template ) || die "Failed to open 
+apachectl template: $!\n";
    open( TARGET, ">", $apachectl ) || die "Failed to create apachectl
+: $!\n";
    
    while( <TEMPLATE> ) {
        print TARGET ;
    }

}

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The function call is:
make_apachectl ( "/home/www/$dname/bin/apachectl", $dname );

The template file has the following variables set: 
# Defining PID file allows multiple instances of Apache from the same 
+binary
PIDFILE=/home/www/$dname/pid/$dname.pid

# the path to your httpd binary, including options if necessary
HTTPD='/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -f /home/www/$dname/conf/httpd.conf
+'

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How do I get perl to expand out the $dname variables when printing from TEMPLATE to TARGET?

Regards
Gavin

In reply to Parsing variables from one file to another. by fatmcgav

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