"Brett Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ... > > That was a big help. I now have another problem however. I had assumed > that adding a line number preceding the prices would be a trivial > matter, however what i thought would work is not doing so. Here is the > code ive tried. > > [snip] > > What i would like is for the output to look like > > 1: 1002.00 > 2: 125.00 > 3: 61864.35 > 4: 890876.99 > 5: 9.99
prompt> perl -ne "print ++$x, qq(: $1\n) if /^?.*<(.+)>/" record.txt If you want to match only digits and decimal places: prompt> perl -ne "print ++$x, qq(: $1\n) if /^?.*<([.\d]+)>/" record.txt Keep in mind that the former will match ANYTHING between <>. The latter will match one or more digits and decimal places. Yes, it will match 3.2.2 which might not be what you want, but it gives you a good starting place. -ZO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
