At 3:49 PM -0700 8/21/08, Walt Pawley wrote: >At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote: > >>- read email addresses from a file in the format: >> >>user.name TAB domain.tld >> >>- convert it to: >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>- write it back to either a new file, the original file, or to STDOUT > >I'm curious why Perl isn't a decent choice. I think I'd do something like > >perl -pe 's/(.*?)\.(.*)\t.*/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/' input_file > output_file
Which is also wrong. It gets a bit closer to Steve's desires I suspect if one adds the appropriate backslash ... perl -pe 's/(.*?)\.(.*)\t.*/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/' input_file > output_file Sorry... -- Walter M. Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470 541-672-8975 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"