I have 3 worthwhile solutions.
1. s2p on original sed file (Paul Johnson)
2. perl -p ..... (Paul [[EMAIL PROTECTED]])
3. Randall's convert to hash..(Randall...)
I'll give all three the ol' corporate try :(
Method which I like best gets a 10%cut from my check from Ed McMahon...
Thanks Paul, Paul, and Randall for the feedback...
Frank
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Subject: Re: sed to perl
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Newland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Frank> 3. The file list_of_changes contains 6000+ lines and sed balks at
such a
Frank> large set of commands.
Frank> How can I do this in perl?
if you can get the data into a hash, like
my %map = ( 'fred' => 'frederick', 'barney' => 'barnard' );
then you can do a massive regex-replace, like:
my $regex = join "|", map quotemeta $_, reverse sort keys %map;
s/($regex)/map{$1}/g;
The "reverse sort" ensures that 'barney' is preferred over 'barn'.
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