Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:21:46 +0100 From: Bernard El-Hagin <zaphod@neostrada.pl> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl script question. Message-ID: <20040110222146.GB711@hoth> In-Reply-To: <20040110221036.GA44130@tao.thought.org> References: <20040110221036.GA44130@tao.thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks, > > Let's see if perl can do this one; it's as obscure a task > as I've run into. I have scores of files with: > > A regular sentence, or phrase. then_one_containing_underscores_- > between_each_word Followed by another regular, space-delimited > sentence. Followed_by_another_string_with_underscaores. > > Is there a perl way to get rid of the > string_containing_underscores and leave the regular sntences?? > > Any thoughts very welcome!! Perhaps this will be enough: % perl -i.bak -pe 'tr/_/ /' <files> -- Cheers, Bernard
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