Re: Perl newbie: regexp

2004-06-17 Thread Roberto Etcheverry
This will do it: perl -n -e 'print if /Testing/m' test.txt '-p' prints every line in the file so you'll see the matching lines twice (one because of '-p' and the other because of 'print') and the non-matching lines once (because of '-p'). Look in 'perldoc perlrun' for differences on '-p' and

RE: Perl newbie: regexp

2004-06-17 Thread Bob Showalter
raj wrote: Hello All, I am new to perl. I want to display the lines which have Testing word. I have to do this in command line. I tried the with following options. Its not work what I expected. It dispalys all lines. perl -p -e 'print if /Testing/m' test.txt -p should be

Re: Perl newbie: regexp

2004-06-17 Thread raj
I am clear. Thanks for replying all. - Original Message - From: Bob Showalter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'raj' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:48 PM Subject: RE: Perl newbie: regexp raj wrote: Hello All, I am new to perl. I want