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Re: Matching Multiple Lines (Re: A Clarification)by Kanji (Parson) |
| on Jan 02, 2003 at 23:45 UTC ( [id://223902]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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perl -0777 -pi.bak -e 's/^0(.*\n){1,8}//mg' file Sure it's a lot more compact, but it suffers the same problem as my non-regex solution, is going to suck majorly for large files, and is (IMHO) less obvious about what it's actually doing, especially to those unfamiliar with Perl (YMMV). --k. Update: Oops, meant -0777 not -00.
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