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Replace a string that contains special charactersby Sonya777 (Novice) |
on Mar 21, 2017 at 15:54 UTC ( #1185363=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Sonya777 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Hi experts, I need help with an edit of a .txt file. I want to replace a part of the string with an empty space (i.e. remove the part of the string). I have many lines like this one:
And from this line I want to remove the bolded string. To do this for many lines, basically I need to remove a part of the string that starts with:
(this is the "common" part for each line, since the date is different for each line) The problem is that the string contains special characters like ",:,} and a simple search & replace script does not work:
Do you have any idea how this can be done? Thanks a lot! Sonya
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