> perl -i -p -e 's/^(\d{2}\t\d{2}\t\d{2})/g' This was the 1st thing that I
> tried; it doesn't work. It was initially easy but different things kept
> appearing that forced me to use > 1
statements on the command line. Negating what I want seems like it ought to be
simple.
>
>
> What have you tried? Have you seen the -i option?
>
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>
>
> I would like to modify a file 'in place' at the command line with
> regexes. The file changes daily and is messy. Can one negate a regex
> itself as opposed to a class of regular expressions? If I could remove
> everything but that selected by m/\d{2}\t\d{2}\t\d{2}/g life would be
> better as I know it. Thanx
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