This can probably be done with half a dozen lines of Perl. I haven't coded in
Perl for years, so I won't try to write the actual code, but it would be
something like:
for every line in file 1
if line contains /<date>.*</date>/
read a date from file 2
replace /<date>.*</date>/ in line with the date from file 2
write line
Trying to be cleverer than that would probably be like trying to trim a hedge
with a lawn mower.
Regards,
Neil Faiman
> On Jun 15, 2021, at 7:28 PM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote:
>
> I have a file that has a few hundred lines, 77 of which are a HTML/XML style
> date element
>
> <date>Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:12:26 -0600</date>
>
> I have another files that has 77 date lines in the same format. Everything is
> different dates, obvs.
>
> I want to replace the first date in file 1 with the first date in file 2, and
> so on through the entire file.
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