Jose Alves de Castro wrote:
To make it short: I have a small filter that I'd like to keep as compact
as possible, while not losing efficiency.
How it works:
1) ignore the first line (it's a header line)
2) if a line ends in a tab, remove that character
3) replace all tabs with pipes
4) if the
Warning: no fun :(
next doesn't skip the continue block where the print is done. Instead you
could:
perl -pe
$_= if $. 2;
You have materially changed the substitution
before: | -
yours: | -
the effect of 4) is to mean that \t\t - | and \tA - \tA. No idea
why this is being done.
Greg
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 05:12, John W. Krahn wrote:
Jose Alves de Castro wrote:
To make it short: I have a small filter that I'd like to keep as compact
as possible, while not losing efficiency.
How it works:
1) ignore the first line (it's a header line)
2) if a line ends in a tab,
a\tb\t
a\t\t
\tb\t
\t\t\t
The output for all these should be:
a|b
a|\s
|b
|\s
This means that I could start by replacing all tabs with pipes, but then
I would always have to remove the last pipe...
I could replace two ending pipes with | (second and fourth cases),
but I
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:23:14AM -0600, Alan Young wrote:
a\tb\t
a\t\t
\tb\t
\t\t\t
The output for all these should be:
a|b
a|\s
|b
|\s
This means that I could start by replacing all tabs with pipes, but then
I would always have to remove the last pipe...
I
