lakshmi nrusimhan wrote: > Consider the following lines: > > Apple > Mango > Banana > Orange > > I want to replace line 1, line 2 i.e. (Apple, Mango) > with hello1\nhello2\nhello3\n. > > The output should be: > hello1 > hello2 > hello3 > Banana > Orange > > I tried something like this: > $t="Apple,Mango"; > perl -pe perl's/$t/hello1\nhello2\nhello3\n/' testvi > > o1 > I am not getting the above mentioned output.
you are getting what you're asking for. $t is 'Apple,Mango'. but you don't have a line that matches that. do you want to replace the 1st 3 lines with your 'hellox' text, or do you need to replace every instance of 'Apple' and 'Mango' with one 'hellox'? both tasks are not the same thing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
