Re: counting all lines except...

2002-11-03 Thread John W. Krahn
Adriano Allora wrote: > > Hi to all, Hello, > I've just learnt ( ... anyway, I'm trying to do it) to select a > string when it is not preceded (or followed) by another string. Perhaps you should read up on the positive/negative look-ahead/look-behind assertions in the perlre document. perldo

counting all lines except...

2002-11-03 Thread Adriano Allora
Hi to all, I've just learnt ( ... anyway, I'm trying to do it) to select a string when it is not preceded (or followed) by another string. My aim is to know the mean of text lines in each newsgroup post, so I wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl -w $nome_del_file = q/text.txt/; open(INPUT, $nome_del_fil