by strange coincidence, i just picked up where i had left off reading "Minimal Perl" by Tim Maher, which goes into some detail about replacing grep (among other functionalities) with either perl one-liners or scripts, depending on preference/need. this book may well be worth your time and money.
On 10/3/07, siegfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to search large amounts of source code and grep is not doing the job. > The problem is that I keep matching stuff in the comments of the > C++/Java/Perl/Groovy/Javascript source code. > > Can someone give me some hints on where I might start on rewriting grep in > perl so that it ignores the contents of /* and */ comments? > > Thanks, > Siegfried > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- since this is a gmail account, please verify the mailing list is included in the reply to addresses -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
