At 3:49 PM -0700 8/21/08, Walt Pawley wrote:
>At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>
>>- read email addresses from a file in the format:
>>
>>user.name TAB domain.tld
>>
>>- convert it to:
>>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>- write it back to either a new file, the original file, or to STDOUT
>
>I'm curious why Perl isn't a decent choice. I think I'd do something like
>
>perl -pe 's/(.*?)\.(.*)\t.*/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/' input_file > output_file
Which is also wrong. It gets a bit closer to Steve's desires I
suspect if one adds the appropriate backslash ...
perl -pe 's/(.*?)\.(.*)\t.*/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/' input_file > output_file
Sorry...
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Walter M. Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wump Research & Company
676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470
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