On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote:
>
> I guess this is an easy one.. how can I insert / delete something at
> the beggining of each line of a block in vi? Still can't figure it,
> though there must be at least ten ways.
>
On way is to use PERL! Since I'm familiar with PERL, I'm gonna give u a
PERL solution:
use this small PERL program and call it comment.pl
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#!/usr/bin/perl
open(FILE,"<./myfile.txt") || die "can't open myfile.txt";
$lines=0;
while(<FILE>){
$lines=$lines+1;
if($lines>=3&&$lines<=4){s/$_/\#$_/;} # this specifies which lines to comment
push(@temp, $_);
}
close(FILE);
open(FILE2,">./comment.txt") || die "can't open comment.txt"; #the commented file :-)
print FILE2 "@temp";
close(FILE2);
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ur initial file: myfile.txt
ur commented file: comment.txt
$lines governs which lines you want to comment out. This example shows the
commented line "#something" to be 3rd and 4th line.
Btw here it's commented by a "#".. u can specify other things! Just modify
the above and run it!
regards,
Didier
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