Searching and replacing text

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post to the list.... Please be gentle :)

Just so we are all clear... I am completely lost right from the start
with this one. It is far beyond my current Perl skills and I need some
serious help :)

I want to create a script that searches file_b for the first entry in
file_a (router1 in the below example) and once it finds it I would like
it to change the next occurrence of "Parent Submap: Any string" to
"Parent Submap: second entry in file_a (site1 in the below example)"

It would also need to be case-insensitive.=20

Can anyone give me a huge push in the right direction?=20

Thank you.=20

-Chris

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External files:=20
file_a - list of routers and their location
Eg:=20
router1,site1

file_b - output from an openview map export, contains 1000's of entries
like the below example.=20
Eg:=20
SYMBOL: ROUTER1
Object Type: 4
Parent Submap: IP Internet
Symbol Type: cisco Router:cisco-Rtr1720Family
Label: ROUTER1
Symbol Position: 1:11764x11691+7126+653
Hidden Value: FALSE
Submap Exists: TRUE
Background Graphics:=20
Layout Style: 2
Layout On: TRUE
Submap Overlay: TRUE
Show Connection Labels: FALSE
END SYMBOL

Chris Richards wrote:
> This is my first post to the list.... Please be gentle :)

Sure.

> Just so we are all clear... I am completely lost right from the
> start with this one. It is far beyond my current Perl skills

Oh?

> and I need some serious help :)

Then, this is the most serious (and gentle) help I can think of:

http://learn.perl.org/

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Fair enough.

-Chris

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Sent: Monday, 2 August 2004 10:08 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Searching and replacing text

Chris Richards wrote:
> This is my first post to the list.... Please be gentle :)

Sure.

> Just so we are all clear... I am completely lost right from the start=20
> with this one. It is far beyond my current Perl skills

Oh?

> and I need some serious help :)

Then, this is the most serious (and gentle) help I can think of:

http://learn.perl.org/

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Could you post the code you have written thus far? It would be a great help.

-ZO

"Chris Richards" <chrisric@routemaster.net> wrote in message
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Hi Everyone,

This is my first post to the list.... Please be gentle :)

Just so we are all clear... I am completely lost right from the start
with this one. It is far beyond my current Perl skills and I need some
serious help :)

I want to create a script that searches file_b for the first entry in
file_a (router1 in the below example) and once it finds it I would like
it to change the next occurrence of "Parent Submap: Any string" to
"Parent Submap: second entry in file_a (site1 in the below example)"

It would also need to be case-insensitive.