On Thu Feb 05 2009 @ 11:17, stuforman wrote: > i want to use perl to end each line with a '~'. i would really > appreciate any syntax that would help me do this... > > thanks in advance
Here's one quick version. This will work and ignore lines without any text or spaces: perl -ple '$_ = "$_~" unless m/^$/' filename Try it and if the output is good, you can save to a new file with redirection or by adding -i.bak (to edit in place and save backups to filename.bak). HTH, T -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
