hi,
I simply wished to strip out all the ">" from a text file. below is the
script and the error that is reported. I cannot see anything wrong, it's
such a simple piece of code! can any one help, are my eyes deceiving me?
thanks,
Adrian
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open(INPUT, "letter.txt") || die "can't open file: $!";
open(OUTPUT, ">newletter.txt");
while (<INPUT>){
if(S/\>//){
print OUTFILE;
}
}
C:\>perl clean.pl
syntax error at clean.pl line 7, near "\>"
syntax error at clean.pl line 10, near "}"
Execution of clean.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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