Have repeatedly searched the web for the answer but could not find Anything. Did find this unanswered question however which is exactly what I have tried. So i thought id try here.

I have found a couple of ways of replacing text within an array, but can't get either of them to work. This would point to human error, but I can't see where I'm going wrong:

(1) 

@config = map {s/oldtext/newtext/g; $_; } @config;

for $t (0 .. $#config)
{
print"$config[$t][0]\n";
}

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This doesn't produce the expected results though, as the oldtext remains and has not been changed at all.

(2) The 2nd approach I have tried is: 

for (@config) {s/oldtext/newtext/g}

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and when I print this out using the same bit of code as above, this doesn't work either.

So can somebody please tell me how I can replace text within an array (each element is a line of text)??? thanks!

In reply to String substitution inside an array by Monkomatic

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