Hi everyone,

I'm in Chapter 9 of "Learning Perl" by Schwartz and using Windows XP. Instead of updating files, they propose simply editing and completely rewriting the file. I am basically using the code as is in the book but cannot seem to get this to work at all! I have a text file "myinfo" with the following:

Program name: some junk
Author: dude
Company: no name
Phone: 123.345.1234
Version: 1.0

I would like to change the author name and remove the phone number all together.

Here's my sample code:

#!perl
use strict;
use 5.010;

$^I = "myinfo.txt.bak";

while( <myinfo.txt> ) {
    s/^Author:.*/Author: Johny5/;
    s/^Phone:.*\n//;
    print;
}
[download]

The book also shows a very neat short hand which I also cannot figure out how to use:

$ perl -p -i.bak -w -e 's/dude/Johnny5/g' myinfo.txt
[download]

Please help!!!

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