Perl Tutorial - 55 Renaming Files Video Lecture - Perl Building Blocks

hello guys welcome to my channel this is
the 55th tutorial in this course and in
this tutorial we're going to see how we
can rename a file in Perl
so I've got a script here that's called
rename underscore file and renaming
files in Perl is really simple you have
to use a rename function so I have you
know use it here on line number two and
it accepts two arguments the first one
is the original name of the file along
with the full path so you know I have a
file called my file the one that I
created in the last tutorial saved here
on my desktop and you know that's going
to be my first argument and it's a text
file that's why we have the extension
dot txt here and the second argument is
the updated name of the file so I want
to save it at the same location it's
just that I want to change the name to
your file instead of my file and the
extension of course will remain the same
dot txt so if I just wanted to rename
then you know this should have been the
entire code in the script but I have it
enclosed inside an if statement and
that's because I want to know whether
the rename operation was conducted
successfully or not so I have made this
an if condition and if the rename
function gave us the result that we are
looking for then we are going to get
inside the if block and execute this
print statement the one that you see
here on line number four and we're going
to see the message file rename
successfully and if there was some issue
and the rename function could not do the
job then we would get inside the else
block and we would execute the print
statement that you see on line number
eight and we would see the message
unable to rename file so this file is
saved I'll press f5 to run and there we
go we see the message file rename
successfully and I'll go to my desktop
and there we go we see here that the
name of the file now is your file and
nothing has happened to the contents the
contents are still the same lyrics
dogs The Pink Floyd song but now that
this file does not exist if I would try
to run the script again I would see the
message unable to rename file and that's
because the rename function would have
returned an error basically it would
have returned a false value indicating
that this file could not be found as a
result of which it could not rename it
you know if this file does not exist and
obviously you cannot rename it but if
you would swap the values again if you
would have your file here and you would
put my file here then the rename
function would work you know just the
same so I hope you guys had fun watching
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to see you in the next tutorial till
then take care