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one problem: there are spaces in "thing 1" and "replacement 1"

Here's the nonfunctional code I have so far


#!/bin/bash
searchFor=(`cat filea.txt` )
replaceWith=(`cat fileb.txt`)
myMax=${#searchFor[@]}
myCounter=1
while [ $myMax != $myCounter ];
do...

Thank you both. They both work :-) I can understand the how perl script works pretty easily.

How does the awk line break down?

I'm working with a file with an xml structure. I'd like to parse it down to just the bits i want. Here is and example of the file
<message id="96352877" method="status">
<date rfc="Sat, 12...