RE: regular expression

[Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan]

On Aug 2, Messervy, Joe M said:

>Ok, I feel stupid the test should have been perl -p -i -e 's/\nmachine//g'
>myfile   ... but it still doesnt work :(

Well, $_ is only ONE LINE of the file.  So it can't possibly start with a
newline and then have other text.  Perhaps you want

  s/^machine//;

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