On 1/22/07, Adriano Allora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
< NOM <unknown>
anth NOM <unknown>
> NOM <unknown>
Those lines have tab characters, maybe?
perl -pi -e "s/< NOM <unknown>.anth NOM <unknown>.>
NOM <unknown>/<anth>/gis" corpus.txt
The -p option is useful for doing some simple processing in one-liners
like this, but it works on just one line at a time. You can easily
work around that, if you've got small files and big memory, by telling
it to read entire files as lines; see the -0777 option in perlrun.
To match one or more whitespace characters in your pattern, use /\s+/
. Then you won't have to worry about whether they're spaces or tabs,
or even newlines -- so you won't need /s either.
Does that get you closer to a solution? Good luck with it!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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