sankoh
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Oct 31, 2001, 11:32 AM
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General Substitute Function
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Hello all,
I wrote a function that takes a SEARCH_STRING, and replace it with NEW_PARAMETER. If I use parenthesis in some portion of SEARCH_STRING, those portion in parenthesis should be be saved in special read-only variables.($1, $2, $3, etc). When I tried to run this code, I get " Use of Uninitialized value at ./substitute.pl. line 6 " . I think the problem is passing the $1 into function. My intention is for this $1 to represent all characters in first parenthesis. Below is the code that was executed. Please help if you know answer to my question. Thanks in advance
################################MAIN#########################################
substitute("^(somePattern).*","$1 = 1;","./testFile");
################################FUNCTION#####################################
sub substitute {
my ($SEARCH_STRING,$NEW_PARAMETER,$FILE_NAME)= @_;
my ($TMP_FILE_NAME);
$TMP_FILE_NAME = "$FILE_NAME".".TMP".".1";
#open necessary files
open (LINE, "$FILE_NAME") || die "Unable to open $FILE_NAME: $!";
open (TMP, ">$TMP_FILE_NAME") || die "Unable to open $TMP_FILE_NAME: $!;
#Loop through file make substitution and send to temp file
while ($ENTRY = <LINE>) {
$ENTRY =~ s/$SEARCH_STRING/$NEW_PARAMETER/;
print TMP "$ENTRY";
}
}
testFile
somePattern = 0;
After execution of script testFile.TMP.1 should be:
somePattern = 1;
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