We run into one of these "How do I do this in a one-liner?" questions pretty frequently, and I for one have to ask, what exactly makes the one-liner so compelling, especially when you are using it for something that will be run repeatedly?
IMHO it would have been much more practical to just create a three line Perl script and run it from the command-line. It makes it easier to read, doesn't discourage commenting, and avoids the contortions sometimes needed to cram it all into one line. -----Original Message----- From: stu meacham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 8:25 AM To: Jay Savage; beginners perl Subject: Re: regex one liner I tried one final time with non-capturing parentheses i.e. (?: to no avail. This works just fine however: perl -i -p -e '@matches = m/\d{2}\t\d{2}\t\d{2}/g; s/.*//g; print"@matches\n"' Retrieve, delete what's left, and rewrite what's to be kept. It should now work everytime all the time. Crude but effective. My (result)/(time spent) ratio would have been lower without your help. I stumbled over the ; inside of the ''s for one. Thanks very much. <snip> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
