Thanks for the help. I just got back on-line. I'll give these a try. Thanks again !
"Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/25/2004 03:19 PM To Jan Eden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], Perl Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject Re: How to put a variable value into a text file On 1/25/2004 3:02 PM, Jan Eden wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > @testarray gets the content of testmessage.txt, which contains the string '$name'. You cannot manipulate this string by setting the variable $name. You could do: > > @testarray =~ s/\$name/$name/g; > > which will replace the literal string '$name' using your variable's content. or more generally #!perl use strict; use warnings; my $name = "Randy"; while (my $line = <DATA>) { $line =~ s/[^\\](\$\w+)\W/eval $1/eg; print $line; } __DATA__ My name is $name. For each line we read in, we look for any occurence of a unescaped dollar sign (i.e. not preceeded by a backslash) followed by any characters valid in a variable name up to any non-valid character. We then substitute that for the current value of that variable within our program. Regards, Randy.