On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Blanchard, William G <William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:I can write a perl one-liner that edits a file but can’t, from within a perl script, directly edit a file.
You can: { local ($^I, @ARGV) = ('', 'your_file'); while (<>) { s/current/new/; print; } } Regards Dimitre