note Anonymous Monk <p><i>Just trying to analyse more complex stuff while tripping over the 'simple' stuff...</i><p> You can always <i>read all about it</i> :) <p> in place edit EDIT AND BACKUP FILES SAFELY ARGV::readonly Iterator::Diamond Iterator::Files -pi.orig -pi.bak [id://1000620|Write to existing file with character insert], [id://258980|Dangerous diamonds!] [id://971953|safe diamonds] [href://http://www.perl.com/pub/2004/10/14/file_editing.html|FMTYEWTK About Mass Edits In Perl - Perl.com] [id://992168|Good-bye Unix filter idiom] 1004397 1004403 5