Re: Removing text to the end of the line.

2002-12-19 Thread John W. Krahn
David Buddrige wrote: > > Hi all, Hello, > I have a bunch of C++ source files that contain the string > > PCN: sometext > > where somtext is an arbitary sequence of characters. > > Whenever the text "PCN:" occurs, I want to remove it and everything else > to the end of the line. > > To do th

Re: Removing text to the end of the line.

2002-12-19 Thread David Buddrige
Hi all, Once again - I figured it out... here is the updated script: while(<>) { my $current_line; $current_line = $_; $current_line =~ s/PCN:.*//g; print $current_line; } It worked after I took out the square brackets - although I am not sure why - since the square brackets *

Removing text to the end of the line.

2002-12-19 Thread David Buddrige
Hi all, I have a bunch of C++ source files that contain the string PCN: sometext where somtext is an arbitary sequence of characters. Whenever the text "PCN:" occurs, I want to remove it and everything else to the end of the line. To do this, I have written the following script: while(<>) {