yes...thank you. i was going to post exactly that, but didn't know how to phrase it. i'm very capable of producing a script/program in whatever language that reads a line from input, edits the line, then writes the edited line to a new file (or stdout or whatever). but like Jim said, the question is can it be done in situ without duplicating most of the file? i guess it can't.
On Saturday 14 December 2002 03:01 am, you wrote: > On Friday 13 December 2002 12:18, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > This still doesn't answer his question. He doesn't want to take up 20 Mb's > of hdd space trying to do the edit. :) > > btw, in a regex \r\n works fine. :) > > - Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
