awesome.... I am making progress. I used ".bak" instead of ' ' b/c I do
not want to remove the file after $ ^ I the edit is done.
BUT,
I do not want to replace the E strings with the eject string instead I
want to put the eject string in from of the E string and write now it is
replacing ?
thanks!
Derek B. Smith
OhioHealth IT
UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams
"JupiterHost.Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
05/26/2004 03:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: entering text within a file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ok does this s/^(?=E\d{5})/eject\t0,0,0\t\n/ while <>;
> say...
>
> from the beginning of the line match 0 or 1 E's with any digits then
print
?=E is sort of odd, I think you mean E?
so it is substituting the first part with the second part
s/^E?\d{5}/eject\t0,0,0\t\n/
will take a part of string like E12345 or 12345 and change it to
eject\t0,0,0\t\n (only once and with an upper case E)
then you need a print statement to print anything.
while(<>) {
s/^E?\d{5}/eject\t0,0,0\t\n/;
print;
}
> the eject string? I am not following the { 5 }.
> my E string is 6 characters long, so why the 5?
\d{5} says five digits
> isn't there a insert regular expression?
HTH
Lee.M - JupiterHost.Net
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