[Israel.pm] using perl -pi but with s///s

[Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com]

Without testing it I don't think it should work.
The code written is read after the file was open, and for each line.  It
will not help undeffing it after that.

Yossi



                                                                                                                                    
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Perl -i -pe 'undef $/; s/this/that/g' file


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-----Original Message-----
From: perl-bounces at perl.org.il [mailto:perl-bounces at perl.org.il] On Behalf
Of Gaal Yahas
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 9:27 AM
To: Perl in Israel
Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] using perl -pi but with s///s


On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:02:36AM +0300, Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com
wrote:
> I want to substitute  in a file a multiline text:
> s/something/somewhat/gs
>
> How can I do it using perl -pi  ?  (perl -p reads line by line)

Use the -0 switch to specify a different input record separator. If your
data is text with paragraphs, and your pattern doesn't span paragraphs,
your best bet is to use the special -00 mode.

If not, you'll need to find something else that isn't in your pattern
and that hopefully still occurs regularly enough so that you don't have
to read huge chunks into memory at once.

If your file is small, all this doesn't matter much. Use slurp mode
(-0777).

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