David Monarres writes ..
>I am alos fairly new with perl and completely new with perl one liners.
>I see how you can use regex's on the cmd line to edit a file (sort of
>sed ish). I tried this
>
>$ perl -pe 's/hello/reverse($1)/' -i test
>
>all it print's is reverse. I was wondering if you knew of a way to read
>in a word and reverse it's contents. Not critical but it has intrigued
>me.
perl -pe 's/hello/reverse $&/e' -i test
perldoc references (type any of the following on the command line):
perldoc perlre
perldoc perlvar
perldoc perlrun
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