[PLUG] Perl: deleting text

[Sasha Romanosky]

Or just grep (egrep) -v could work, depending on your actual need.

sasha

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> [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Jeme A Brelin
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Perl: deleting text
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> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Brian Derr wrote:
> > I'm fairly new to Perl and have been working on a small 
> script.  Thus 
> > far I've got it working perfectly but have one question, how do I 
> > remove text from a file?  I am keeping a plain text file 
> with records 
> > that are separated by a '\n\n'.  How would I go about deleting a 
> > record? I tried getting help on #perl in freenode but no 
> one responded 
> > so I thought I'd take it to my favorite LUG.  :-)
> 
> Um, context is important here.  You're reading in a file then 
> writing it out again?  Then you delete it by not writing it.
> 
> What kind of records are these?  Have you considered using a 
> SwissArmy Chainsaw type tool like DBD::CSV (this allows you 
> to treat a flat file like a database and use SQL against it)?
> 
> Details, details.
> 
> oh, and `sed /pattern/d file` works pretty well, too.
> 
> J.
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