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Solved Open & Replace string in Multiple files-PERL

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November 29, 2011 at 07:35:19
Specs: Windows XP
i want a perl program which will open multiple of .txt files from a folder and replace contents within it...i have to rename ABC into DEF in every files in that folder..i have the program for replacing but it can be done only for a single file and that too the full name of the file have to be mentioned...i want to read multiple txt files and make the substitution..

The snippet:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

open (IN, "+<CHECK.txt");

@file = <IN>;

seek IN,0,0;

foreach $file (@file){
$file =~ s/ABC/DEF/g;
$file =~ s/FAIL/ /g;
print IN $file;
}
close IN;

Thanks...
K.K...


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November 29, 2011 at 13:56:31
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Here is a wrapper script that you can place around your code. This was developed under Solaris unix so I don't know if it will work with windows. You will probably have to use the window's directory seperator \ which is different from unix:

Your open will probably look something like:

open (IN, "$directory\$file");


#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

# change to your folder name
my $directory = '/tmp';

opendir (DIR, $directory) or die $!;
while (my $file = readdir(DIR)) {
   chomp $file;
   # only want files
   next unless (-f "$directory/$file");
   # only want files ending with .txt
   next unless ($file =~ m/\.txt$/);

# Put your perl code here
   print "$directory/$file\n";
}
closedir(DIR);


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