Posted by W Luke on 09/25/95 11:17

On 30/05/05, Brian V Bonini <b-bonini@cox.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 12:22, W Luke wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some text in a file which, when it's dumped to a var, needs to
> > be replaced. In its raw form, it looks like this: <^JIM_JONES> and I
> > need to remove the <^_ and > characters and have it read "Jim-Jones"
> >
> > It's nestled in amongst a load of other text - I'm fopen'ing a file
> > and reading it line by line - the text-to-replace is just in a var
> > named $text1

> Someone much more clever that I can probably come up with something much
> cleaner and efficient but.... This works...

Thanks Brian, that worked a treat. Altered it slightly, but
essentially it was just what I needed.

Lifesaver, thanks.
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