> I'm trying to write a perl one-liner that will edit an iCalendar > format file to remove To Do items. The file contains several > thousand lines, and I need to remove several multi-line blocks. The > blocks to remove start with a line "BEGIN:VTODO" (without the quotes) > and end with a line "END:VTODO" (also without quotes). > > I've tried the following one-liner, > > perl -p -i.bak -e 's/BEGIN:VTODO.*END:VTODO//sg' file_name_to_edit
Assuming you have enough disk space: perl -ane 'print unless /^BEGIN:VTODO/ .. /^END:VTODO/' old > new perldoc perlrun for more info on perl's command line paramaters -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
