Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:26:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Un*x scripting magic Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004172324550.24795-100000@impatience.valueclick.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0004171843020.30502-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Steve Price wrote:
> A have a chunk of perl code something like this.
>
> # insert bunch of code here
>
> my $msg <<EndOfMessage;
> %%MESSAGE%%
> EndOfMessage
>
> # more code goes here
>
> Then I have a multi-line (printable characters only) ASCII
> text file containing the message that I'd like to replace
> for %%MESSAGE%%. [1] Anyone have a neat little trick in
> their bag-o-magic? I know the answer should be really
> obvious but everything I've tried thus either hasn't worked
> or was too convoluted.
Why would you want to do that? Why not just read the file as you go?
Something like:
open MF, "messagefile"
or die "Could not open messagefile: $!";
my $msg
{ local $/ = undef;
$msg = <MF>; }
close MF;
is really cheap and easy.
But maybe I totally misunderstood what it was you wanted to do. :-)
- ask
--
ask bjoern hansen - <http://www.netcetera.dk/~ask/>;
more than 70M impressions per day, <http://valueclick.com>;
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.10.10004172324550.24795-100000>