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Oct 16, 1998, 3:28 PM
kian
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How to search and replace all word that match in a file with the hash below? Thanks!

%word = ('old'=>'new', '97'=>'98');

Oct 17, 1998, 7:03 AM
Alex
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Oct 17, 1998, 7:03 AM
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Not quite sure I understand? Do you want to search a file and replace all instances of old with new and 97 with 98?

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Alex
Oct 17, 1998, 10:17 AM
kian
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Oct 17, 1998, 10:17 AM
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Yes, but not only replace old with new and 97 with 98, is to replace it with all of the text in a hash.