Will Shiver wrote:
>
> I have a file that I would like to read thru line by
> line and print somthing based on when the value in
> the first field postion stays the same. I would change
> the tag value amongst 3 different values.
>
> Example file:
> blue jay
> blue bery
> blue bird
> red apple
> red car
> red man
> purple people
> green
> green 2
> green 3
> black one
> black woman
>
> The Program would
> split on space
> field position 1 would equal blue and it would then print
> blue box
> blue box
> blue box
> red robo
> red robo
> red robo
> purple rain
> green box
> green box
> green box
> black robo
> black robo
perl -lane'$a{$F[0]}++or$a=qw/box robo rain/[$b++%3];print"$F[0] $a"' yourfile.txt
John
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