Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-27 Thread David Christensen
> On Jan 27, 2018, at 12:58 AM, tomas wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:31:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > [...] > >> I've "cleaned up" more files than I care to remember. (Perl s/// is the >> road to madness for anything but

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:31:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: [...] > I've "cleaned up" more files than I care to remember. (Perl s/// is the > road to madness for anything but the most trivial cases.) I wanted to give > the OP an idea of w

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-26 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > Yes -- I'm such an insensitive ass.  ;-) > nice to meet you :) > > I've "cleaned up" more files than I care to remember.  Lexing, parsing, > and EBFN are the standard computer science tools for tasks such as this. > (Perl s/// is the road to madness for anything but

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-26 Thread David Christensen
> On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:40 PM, deloptes wrote: > > David Christensen wrote: > >> I used to subscribe to Perl Beginners, but the administrator got draconian >> about discussing other languages, I dropped, and now I appear to be >> banned: > > The way you are writing, no wonder you are banned.

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > I used to subscribe to Perl Beginners, but the administrator got draconian > about discussing other languages, I dropped, and now I appear to be > banned: > > https://lists.perl.org/list/beginners.html > > >> I've never used Perl, but I'm hoping Perl can do the job fo

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread David Christensen
> On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:14 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > This is OT, but I thought I'd start with this list as it is the list that I > deal with more than any other. If no one here can help, suggestions for a > better list to try will be appreciated. > I used to subscribe to Perl Begin

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 03:21:19 PM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 02:14:42PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > This is OT, but I thought I'd start with this list as it is the list that > > I deal with more than any other. If no one here can help, suggestions > > for a

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 02:14:42PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > This is OT, but I thought I'd start with this list as it is the list that I > deal with more than any other. If no one here can help, suggestions for a > better list to try will b

OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread rhkramer
This is OT, but I thought I'd start with this list as it is the list that I deal with more than any other. If no one here can help, suggestions for a better list to try will be appreciated. I've never used Perl, but I'm hoping Perl can do the job for me. What I need to do: I have multiple lar