The first two parts are fine. You grab your search an replacement patterns and chomp of the newlines (you don't need the parens with chomp BTW).

Next it gets a bit confused. The <> construct is essentially the same as <STDIN> (see ChemBoy's post below). Within the while loop each input from STDIN is aliased to the magical $_ perl special variable. Here is some working code: 

print "\nSearch Pattern: ";
chomp(my $pattern = <>);
$pattern = uc quotemeta $pattern;

print "\nReplacement Pattern: ";
chomp(my $replacement = <>);

print "\nInput: ";
while (<>) {
   chomp;
   last unless $_;
   s/$pattern/$replacement/ig;
   print;
   print "\nInput: ";
}

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The input sections are almost the same but I demonstrate a good use for parens with chomp to do in one line what was two before. I have also declared $pattern and $replacement as lexically scoped variables with my - this is a good idea otherwise all your variables will be globals. The $pattern = uc quotemeta $pattern does two things. The uc() function converts $pattern to UPPER CASE as desired and the quotemeta() escapes (with a \) all the meta charcters that can break your regex because the take on a non literal meaning in a regex.

We then demand some input from STDIN in an infinite while loop. As I noted this is assigned to the magical $_ var. This var is the default target of many perl functions. You see that I do a chomp, substitution and print without specifying what to do them on! They all target $_ - you either love this behaviour or hate it. I have added a last unless $_ so if we enter a null string we break out of this infinite loop. In perl 0, undefined and the null string '' are all false - everything else is true. With the substitution regex the /ig at the end are modifiers. the /i means ignore case (which we need to as we uppercased our $pattern) and the /g stands for global as in replace all occurences.

Hope this helps. Have fun and welcome.

cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n\w+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

In reply to Re: Searching and Replacing by tachyon
in thread Searching and Replacing by Satira

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