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in thread how to append 2 lines

Hi,....

Thanks for the advice....

but another doubt....This is fine if i give the input then and there... but i want to give my input in a file... i want to perform this action for the above lines in a file.. please help me in this also...

Thanks in advance...

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Re^3: how to append 2 lines
by philiprbrenan (Monk) on Sep 05, 2012 at 21:43 UTC

    May I suggest something like this to read your lines of text: 

    use feature ":5.14";
use warnings FATAL => qw(all);
use strict;
use Data::Dump qw(dump pp);

sub readFile($)
 {my ($f) = @_;
  $f or die "readFile: No file specified";
  open my $F, "<$f" or die "Cannot open $f for input";
  local $/ = undef;
  <$F> 
 }

print readFile("readFile.pm");

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    Produces:

    use feature ":5.14";
use warnings FATAL => qw(all);
use strict;
use Data::Dump qw(dump pp);

sub readFile($)
 {my ($f) = @_;
  $f or die "readFile: No file specified";
  open my $F, "<$f" or die "Cannot open $f for input";
  local $/ = undef;
  <$F> 
 }

print readFile("readFile.pm");

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      Hi,

      Thanks for the help...i was successfully able to finish it...

      i have one more doubt..

      say my code is          F$SFH FIRST,SC==H'160',        COMMENTS                    * i need to replace ',*' instead of ", K.160 LESEN *" so that my code looks like F$SFH FIRST,SC==H'160',*

      I tried using substitution function.. but i dont know where i am going wrong,. please help me in this... my code looks somewhat like 

       
$a =    F$SFH FIRST,SC==H'160',        K.160 LESEN                    
+* 
$a =~ s/\,[\s]*\*/\,\*/;

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