thanks to all for your help, it's things like this that make me appreciate the increadible resources we all have at our fingertips. thanks again. >From: rpjday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: cat infile | translate all occurences of "NOT NULL" to "" >Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:32:55 -0400 (EDT) > >On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > > > Do you want to remove the entire line if they *begin with those > > characters? If so, creating the following file, making it executable and > > running it will do this. > > > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl -ni > > # convert.pl > > # usage: ./convert.pl file1 file2 file3 ... > > next if /^[; ]/; > > next if /^.com/; > > next if /\.(ROOT|GTLD)-/; > > print; > > > > the -n switch does what -p does, but does not print the line by default > > I combined a few of the similar matches. You could write it in one big > > (but harder to understand) regex if you wanted to. > > >while i love perl, as per my recent post, this seems like the >perfect job for sed -- deleting lines based on a simple matching. > >rday > >-- >"This is Microsoft technical support. How may I misinform you?" > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
