> Hi there,
Howdy
>
> I need to substitute a string in a .rtf file with a string
> from an HTML form. I thought about using placeholders in the
> .rtf document and then searching and overwriting them with
> the data from the HTML form. I tried it out with that code:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> open PASSWD, "test.rtf"
> or die "nichts gefunden ($!) ";
>
> while (<PASSWD>) {
> chomp;
> if (/welt/) {
> s/welt/mars/;
> }
> }
You are simply reading the file here, not writing anything to it.
If you want a search and replace feature try this from the command line:
perl -pi -e "s/welt/mars/" test.rtf
HTH
DMuey
>
> there aren't any warn messages from the compiler, but the
> string "hallo welt" hasn't changed into "hallo mars". But
> whats' wrong? Or is it a problem with the .rtf format?
>
> Mfg
> Blackice
>
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