Search,Replace

[s022jsb]

hi all

i need to be able to search a file for a particular string and replace some of the text

ex, TEXT=???

"TEXT" is always the same
"=" alwsays comes after TEXT
??? is unknown

what i want to do is to search a file for that string and replace the
??? with "myinput" so i would then have

TEXT=myinput

[ACJavascript]

you could do somthing like this


open(info,"yourFile.txt") || print "SOrry can't open yourFile.txt";
@in=<info>;
close(info);
chomp(@in);
foreach $i(@in){
$i =~ s/???/myinput/g;
}
open(update,">yourFile.txt" || print "can't open yourFile.txt";
flock(update,2);
seek(update,0,0);
print update @in;
close(update);

print "Success";
exit;


Didn't try it but i think it will work just fine.

[s022jsb]

i will give it a shot, let you know if it works
thanks

[s022jsb]

looking at the code,

in the search string ??? can be anything, name,date whaterver

wont' s/???/myinput look for the string "???", i need it to be able to change the data after the "=" in a typical line

TEXT=??? and ??? is unknown, it could be a name,date...

thanks again
jason

[ACJavascript]

Okay how about this:

open(info,"yourFile.txt") || print "SOrry can't open yourFile.txt";
@in=<info>;
close(info);
chomp(@in);
foreach $i(@in){
$i =~ s/$FORM{'SearchInput'}/myinput/g;
}
open(update,">yourFile.txt" || print "can't open yourFile.txt";
flock(update,2);
seek(update,0,0);
print update @in;
close(update);

print "Success";
exit;


SearchInput is the name of the form field that would be the date or name or whatever...

[s022jsb]

thanks
jason