On May 10, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said: >On May 10, Bob Showalter said: > >>perl -e 'do {$x{<>}=1} until eof; exists $x{$_} && print && delete $x{$_} >>while(<>)' mac1.txt mac2.txt > >perl -e 'do{$x{<>}=1}until eof;delete$x{$_}&&print while<>' X Y
perl -e '$_.=<>until eof;s/^\Q$r\E$//m&&print while$r=<>' X Y -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]