in reply to search and replace with a temp file at a certain substr position

Substr can do the replacing for you:         my $ns = substr( $_, 13, 8, 'blah'); but it appears that you aren't printing what you want to *NEW,         print NEW $_;

I don't understand your regex. What is it supposed to match?

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Re^2: search and replace with a temp file at a certain substr position
by drock (Beadle) on Jul 20, 2005 at 21:11 UTC
    the string I am searching on is like readonly strlinehlth=343434 readonly anthem=454545 readonly tlx=34435432 I used the substr thanks it worked! But now I am trying to improve my code b/c I realized I am making 3 identical system calls. My thought is create a routine with LABLES for each condition like so. Is there a better way or why isn't this working? 
    
sub finger
{
   
open (GPG, "gpg --fingerprint |") or die "unable to open pipe sys call
+ (1)... Broken? $!";
                
for (;<GPG>;)
{                {
  EXP: if ( /(?i)expires/ )
   {
       y<-]>//d;
       $expdate = +(split)[4];
       print $expdate,"\n";
   }
  
   FPR: if (/talx/ig .. /expire/ig)
   {
            if (/key/i)
            {
               y<[Key,fingerprint,=]>//d;
               y{ }//d; print FPR $_;
               print "Now deleting key\n";
               # call;
               last;
             }
   }

   KEY: if ( /(?i)pub/ and /(?i)talx/) 
   {
         $keyid = (substr ($_,11,9));
   }
               
}  # END FOR LOOP
  
close (GPG) or die "unable to close pipe sys call (0)... Broken? $!";
  
}  # END ROUTINE

&finger(goto EXP);

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