While Zaxo's answer solves the problem.There is just on point i would like to make.
I am a big fan of perl but sometimes perl may not be the most convinient way to do something.
I feel this is one such scenario
The above file is obviously from the "*nix" world.
Since you want to modify the file, i would do so using vi rather than write a program.
vi myfile
press shift and : together
%s/\(ORA3=\)\(.*\)/\10/g.
:wq
Of course the above can be done in many other ways.
My basic point is why script when you can do this in 15 seconds in one line.
HTH

In reply to Re: minpulating a file by chimni
in thread minpulating a file by Jaki1980

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