Re: regex file in-line

[Moron]

The problem is that although you perform the substitution in memory it doesn't get written to the output file. The easiest way to achieve that is to add the -a option, e.g.

alias mycmd="perl -p -i.out -w -ae 's/Fred/arry/g'"

to execute the pseudoscript...

mycmd myfile

See perlrun for the relevant docn. alias is a unix command, there is proabably a DOS equivalent.

Update: when I wrote this, perldoc was down. But I was able to test my suggestion. I started off with -lane instead of -ae and then narrowed it down, not having perlrun available in my head. But I really think the OP has enough from the perlrun link to solve the problem a la rtfm.