On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:07:21AM -0700, John W. Krahn wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> This one-liner does pretty much what I would want but I do not know
>> how to convert it to a script.
>> perl -lane 'print $F[2] if /searchterm/' input.txt
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $\ = "\n";
> while ( <> ) {
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the easiest method to search in a file for a particular term,
and output a desired field.
For example, in awk, I would simply do:
awk '/searchterm/ {print $2}' input.txt
to get my result.
But in Perl, the shortest way I could find achieve the same result
was:
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 14:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This one-liner does pretty much what I would want but I do not know
> how to convert it to a script.
>
> perl -lane 'print $F[2] if /searchterm/' input.txt
See `perldoc perlrun` and look up -a and -n under "Command Switches".
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Jus
What is the easiest method to search in a file for a particular term,
and output a desired field.
For example, in awk, I would simply do:
awk '/searchterm/ {print $2}' input.txt
to get my result.
But in Perl, the shortest way I could find achieve the same result
was:
$inputfile=input.txt;
open(
