Hi all, I have a file, the contents are: 
@a = ("'hello world'",'print ', ';');
eval(@a[1] . @a[0] . @a[2]);

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what i'm trying to do is read the file and replace the array index numbers with random numbers, so far here is what i've come up with: 
$re='.*?(@)((?:[a-z][a-z0-9_]*))(\\[)(\\d+)(\\])';

open(FILE, "+<ibank.txt");
@code = <FILE>;
close FILE;

foreach (@code) {
$code .= $_;
if ($_ =~ m/$re/)
{
    $rndIndex=0;

    $c1=$1;$var1=$2;$index=$4;$c3=$5;

    $rndIndex = int(rand(99999));
    $old = $c1.$var1.$index.$c3;
    $varName = "$index$c3";
    $varName =~ s/$index/$rndIndex/; 
    $code =~ s/[$old]/$varName/g;
}
}
print $code; #show output example

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the problem is this only replaces the first array found "@a1" the others and untouched.. why is this? :/ thanks

In reply to Replace arrays in external file by astroid96

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