in reply to Re^4: opening file for editing
in thread opening file for editing

  1. Monks have mentioned the documentation for open
  2. Monks provided hyperlinks to the documentation for open
  3. Monk specifically mentioned the +< and +> operators

Did you read it?

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Re^6: opening file for editing
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2011 at 14:19 UTC
    i happen to read but i couldnt figure out a solution
      ok, here's a quick code for your reference. This is an implementation for :

      Re^3: opening file for editing
      by pvaldes (Scribe) on Oct 09, 2011 at 17:08 HKT

      I guess that's the best option for you. So please re-read the logic from that post.

      # code not tested! my $srcFile = "/path/to/file.ext"; open F, "<", $srcFile; # this trip is READ my @data = <F>; # this can be danger if you have a big file close F; open F, ">", $srcFile; # this trip is WRITE foreach my $line ( @data ) { $line =~ s/your_regex/expected_replacement/; print F $line; } close F;

      HTH