Hi all,

Sometimes I have to change words inside text files. When this happens, and when I know what to search for, I use this program.

#!c:/Perl/bin/Perl.exe
#
# corrector.pl
# changes words inside text files
# placed in the win directory C:\filestochange
# which is supposed to contain text files
#

my $dir_to_process = "C:\\filestochange";
opendir DH, $dir_to_process or die "Cannot open $dir_to_process: $!";

foreach $file (readdir DH) {
  unless ($file eq "." || $file eq ".." || $file eq "discarded" || $fi
+le eq "tmp") {
    print "in $dir_to_process $file is processed\n";
    open (INFILEHANDLE, "C:\\filestochange\\$file") or die "error open
+ing";
    open (OUTFILEHANDLE, ">C:\\filestochange\\tempfile8000") or die "e
+rror opening";
    while (<INFILEHANDLE>) {
      # chomp;
      s/this/that/; # substututes this with that
      s/one/two/; # substututes one with two
      print OUTFILEHANDLE;
    }
    close INFILEHANDLE;
    close OUTFILEHANDLE;
    rename "C:\\filestochange\\tempfile8000","C:\\filestochange\\$file
+";
  }
}

closedir DH;

print "\nDone (press enter key)\n";
$line = <STDIN>;

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In reply to Corrector by gok8000

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