[Cialug] PerlRE
Todd Walton
tdwalton at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 09:27:10 CDT 2007
Can someone refresh my memory? I have a file with many lines of text.
One (or two) of those lines has an expression in it, "We go to the ",
followed by another one word. I want to use perl to find that
expression and print "We go to the park" or "We go to the game" or
whatever it is. How do I do that?
So far I know that -e will run a perl command from the shell command
line. And I saw a -Fpattern in man perl, but I couldn't find anything
else on command-line options in man perl. I did find a page about it
on perl.com and then at the end of that article it said to see 'man
perlrun'. So I'm all over that.
But how do I yank and return just "We go to the " out of it?
-todd
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