Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:33:08 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: perl script question. Message-ID: <20040110223308.GA4881@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040110221036.GA44130@tao.thought.org> References: <20040110221036.GA44130@tao.thought.org>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:10:36PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
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> Folks,
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> Is there a perl way to get rid of the
> string_containing_underscores and leave the regular sntences??
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perl -pi.bak -e 's/\s+\w+_\w+\.?//;' filename
Cheers,
Matthew=09
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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