hi,
I simply wished to strip out all the ">" from a text file. below is the
script and the error that is reported. I cannot see anything wrong, it's
such a simple piece of code! can any one help, are my eyes deceiving me?
thanks,
Adrian
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open(INPUT, "letter.txt") || die "c
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> hi,
>
> I simply wished to strip out all the ">" from a text file. below is the
> script and the error that is reported. I cannot see anything wrong, it's
> such a simple piece of code! can any one help, are my eyes deceiving me?
[localhost:~] tor% perl -e 'while(<>) {s/\>//g; print;}'
>>
> while (){
> if(S/\>//){
'>' does not have to be escaped (this is not an error, it is the capitalized s as you
mentioned)
You can just write this as s/>//.
$_ = a>a>a>a>';
s/>//g;
print "$_\n";
This prints
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From: "Adrian Farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 5:25 PM
Subject: invisible syntax error
> hi,
>
> I simply wished to strip out all the ">" from a text file. below is the
