New to Perl Mail @ sign search and replace in a file
HI
I'm terribly new to perl .. I;ve been trying to use this command to search and replace entries in a file
I tried this and it works
Code:
perl -p -i -e 's/old/new/' filename
Problem is that I have a list of email addresses and I need to serach and replace the entire email address as my users changes their email addresses often , sometime I have to add an email adress in the middle of these or end of line ..
sample of entries in my file .. all email addressss are sepearted by comma
over 100 emails in it
joe.1@uuu.com,joe.2@uuu.net
If I use %s/old/new/ in VI session I can replace an entry
first problem:
When I use this perl command it fails .. I have no idea how to esape the
@ sign
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