I have a perl script that opens a file and parses thru a file replacing a search string. I need to modify the code to take a list of file names and then parse thru each file. Instead of taking the file name from the command line.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my($copy) = "$ARGV[0].bak"; copy($ARGV[0], $copy) or die "File cannot be copied. \n"; open(INPUT,"$copy") or die 'Cannot open file: $!\n'; open(OUTPUT,">$ARGV[0]"); my($replacePattern1) = "foo1"; my($searchPattern1) = "bar1"; my($replacePattern2) = "foo2"; my($searchPattern2) = "bar2"; my($replacePattern3) = "foo3"; my($searchPattern3) = "bar3"; my($pattern) = 0; while (<INPUT>) { if ($_ =~ s/$searchPattern1/$replacePattern1/g) { $pattern = 1; } elsif ($_ =~ s/$searchPattern2/$replacePattern2/g) { $pattern = 2; } elsif ($_ =~ s/$searchPattern3/$replacePattern3/g) { $pattern = 3; } print OUTPUT $_; }close INPUT; close OUTPUT; unlink($copy);
how do I modify this code?

In reply to Find and Replace from File List by PyrexKidd

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