Perl monking (was Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:24:07PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > perl -pi.bak -e 'BEGIN {$line=shift; $sub=shift;} s/^(.+:[^:]+")[^"]+(".*)/$1${sub}$2/' $2 $3 $1
> > 
> > This is untested, but based on the -p documentation.  Specifically:
> > 
> > "BEGIN and END blocks may be used to capture control
> >  before or after the implicit loop, just as in awk."
> 
> Aha!  Yeah; figures they'd steal that too.  I'll try that version.

I actually ended up with:

perl -pi.bak -e 'BEGIN {$label=shift; $sub=shift;}
        if (/^$label:/)
		s/^(.+:[^:]+")[^"]+(".*)/$1${sub}$2/;' $2 $3 $1

You forgot the if clause.  The trailing semicolon, too, in the -e, but
I suspect that's optional.

Testing now.

Cheers,
-- jra
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