I am using Cygwin on Win2K and the version of perl on it is v5.8.0 I am using the same input file, but when I run the command you ran, the output looks like
Object1 Description1 Object2 Description2 Object3 Description3 Thanks Errin Larsen wrote: > > Thanks for your help guys... > > > > But the code is performing the logic only for the first set of lines... > > > > After the running the above script, the output looks like > > > > Object1<...tab...>Description1 > > > > Object2 > > Description2 > > > > Object3 > > Description3 > Can you post EXACTLY what's in the input file for us? > I test with the following input file, I called it object.txt: > # cat object.txt > Object1 > "Description1" > Object2 > "Description2" > Object3 > "Description3" > I run this command line: > # perl -l -00pe's/n/t/;s/"//g' object.txt > Object1 Description1 > Object2 Description2 > Object3 Description3 > It's hard to see the tabs, so I tried one with 2 tabs in it for clarity: > # perl -l -00pe's/n/tt/;s/"//g' object.txt > Object1 Description1 > Object2 Description2 > Object3 Description3 > So, on my (Solaris 9, Perl 5.6.1) box, it's working. What OS and Perl > version are you using and what's your input file look like? > --Errin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
