On Jun 25, bob ackerman said: >> perl -lane'$a{$F[0]}++or$a=qw/box robo rain/[$b++%3];print"$F[0] $a"' >> yourfile.txt
>i assume things like '$a' ,'$b', and '$F' come from those switches, so >only question is... @F comes from the -a switch used in conjunction with -n. $a, %a, and $b are just used. >where are those command line switches documented? >i would have thought 'perldoc perl' ... but, i didn't see it there, nor >apparently in any other doc title it mentioned Then you missed: perlrun Perl execution and options -- 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]