Oops - sorry - i missed the last / there & so it was not working.
Now its working fine
But there is 1 more issue - only the output displayed on running the script have the required changes.
However, the changes are not reflecting in the original file - which is what I require.
Could someone please help on this - on how to make the original file change directly?
Please ignore this post - i guess it was being answerewd while I was posting it --- Thanks Guru - let me try that out
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Hi,
once i run this script, the whole input file goes(a.txt & b.txt) goes empty for some reason
Could you pls help on this
---------- Post updated at 06:40 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:30 PM ----------
Its Working now !!!
the 1st time i run it - all the .txt files in my Directory went blank...
But since after that its been working perfectly
Thanks Guru
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-28-2012 at 09:30 AM..
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