Okay, will do... One more, what about a sed command that deletes the first 3 spaces of each line... i.e., how would I do this in perl...
sed 's/^ //' file1 > file2 -----Original Message----- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Data File, turn fields on mulitple lines into records on one li ne.. . Taylor Lewick wrote: > > Okay, I redid it so it looks like this... > > `grep -v "STUFF:STUFF" file1 > file2`; Is that what the ACTUAL line looks like? > (I am looking for the string > STUFF:STUFF and that didn't work... but it works via command line... > > Any ideas? Use perl to do it: open my $in, '<', 'file1' or die "Cannot open file1: $!"; open my $out, '>', 'file2' or die "Cannot open file2: $!"; while ( <$in> ) { next if /STUFF:STUFF/; print $out; } close $out; close $in; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
