Re^2: update winxp hosts file with new IP address

Thank you all for your responses. You are correct in that I should have provided more detail. Normally I would have. I will blame the late hour of the posting and my failed attempts to get anything working on my own.

CountZero, you hit the situation precisely on the head. Thank you very much for the detailed example! The regular expressions search for the correct line to replace the IP address on is the main part I was having issues with.

-nas

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Re^3: update winxp hosts file with new IP address by notasaint (Novice) on May 09, 2008 at 02:25 UTC
This is what I came up with based on the information provided and the desire to have the user prompted for the updated IP address. Please let me know if I'm making some serious Perl mistakes or if this looks good. Hints about better coding are always appreciated. Update: Removed the code here. I hadn't tested it on the intended workstation before posting it and it turned out that it didn't work properly because the laptop image didn't include the Regex module. Thanks once again for the guidance!	[reply]

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Re^3: update winxp hosts file with new IP address
by notasaint (Novice) on May 09, 2008 at 02:25 UTC

This is what I came up with based on the information provided and the desire to have the user prompted for the updated IP address.

Please let me know if I'm making some serious Perl mistakes or if this looks good. Hints about better coding are always appreciated.

Update: Removed the code here. I hadn't tested it on the intended workstation before posting it and it turned out that it didn't work properly because the laptop image didn't include the Regex module.

Thanks once again for the guidance!

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