Might be.
What's the actual string you want to replace? If it contains some special characters, they might need escaping.
Also, what's the format of the files? Some binary formats might contain CRC checks which would be invalidated by changing some bytes. Also, if the binary format is fixed length or records the lengths of dynamic parts, you might need to pad the inserted string or update the recorded length.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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That technically doesn't open the file in binary mode, but there's no difference between text mode and binary mode (by default) in Linux.
But you are reading the file a line at a time. What's a line in a binary file? That makes no sense. Perhaps you should make it so the entire file is one line by using -0777. (That's a zero.)
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please define "textual strings in binary file"
best by pasting an example
> Is this correct: perl -i.bak -pe s/search-this-string/replace-with-this-string/g file.bin
so what happened?
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I would like to see a detailed example of the exact situation.
The reason is that I'm not sure exactly what the OP has in this binary file.
See MAC address wiki for gory details
One common form of human readable text is like: 01:23:45:67:89:AB. In a binary form,
that is 6, eight bit bytes (2 hex digits each) or 48 bits or 3, 16 bit unsigned integers. If that human form
is stored as a string for easy output to humans, that's 17 bytes of ASCII plus probably a trailing
zero. A binary file would typically just store the 48 bits (not a string).
You can use regex to replace one binary string with another binary string. However, I am not sure
that is best here because we have almost no application details. I suspect that more code than
just one regex will be required for a good UI - could be wrong about that - perhaps depends
upon what is meant by "good UI"! There are also other possibilities in the menagerie of Perl options.
I hope the OP can show at least a partial hex dump of the file and then explain what he wants to replace with what.
And comment about potential CRC characters is spot on- probably don't exist, but they might.
I would be curious to know a bit higher level of the app like why a low level binary edit is needed?
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