What you want is called "inplace editing" in perl.
Here it is, try to spot the difference to your own code:
$^I = ".bak";
@ARGV = ('file.html');
while(<>)
{
# chomp; # don't want to loose the linebreaks
my $string = "$_";
my $find = "www.3sat.de/boerse/boerse_service.html";
my $replace = "there.company.com/";
$find = quotemeta $find;
$string =~ s/$find/$replace/g;
print $string;
}
Here's what you do:
- Put the list of files you want to treat into @ARGV
- Set $^I. For every file treated, the original is saved with $^I added to the filename
- read from <>
- print to STDOUT
Perl does all the right things: it opens the
files in @ARGV one by one, creates backups,
and writes your output back into the original files.
P.S. Everything has already been discussed on
perlmonks: see modifying and overwriting a file
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