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You can use the in-place edit option of Perl (see the -i option in perlrun):
{
    local $^I = ''; #no backup of original!
    local @ARGV = qw(c:\\tuls\\tuls.txt);
    
    while ( <ARGV> ) {
        s/find/replace/g;
        print;
    }
}

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Paul

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Re^2: Modify file without any temp variable
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 20, 2005 at 09:40 UTC

    I think you will find that that generates a temporary file, although not an explicit one. It is an option OP should look at though.

    Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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