I am trying to write a simple perl script to run on a FreeBSD machine.
There are alot of posts here, and I have read so many, yet can not get this script to run.
I am trying to take a windows text file, move it into Unix, run a script on it.
For starters, I only want this to replace the first carriage return/line feed with a ~
I do not want to convert it to Unix, just replace the first carriage return/line feed.
I have tried \r\n and also \015\012
The file is an ASCII text file, created in notepad.
I am getting errors about the \ and the /, therefore I also tried:
Yet no luck. It also seams to tell me it is looking for a operator before the infile.txt Also get Can't locate object method "txt" via package "outfile"
another error message:
(Missing operator before infile?)
Any ideas?
Last edited by Franklin52; 01-19-2011 at 03:32 AM..
Reason: Please use code tags
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