Re: tlug: perl is better?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Jim Schweizer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> When you request majordomo to send a tlug monthly archive file
> it arrives with a pesky >From line that MHonARC ignores (meaning
> it thinks there are no new files to read because the line starts
> with a >)
> 
> Being lazy (and knowing sed better than perl) I got rid of them
> with 
> 
> $ cat tlug.9802 | sed 's/^>From/From/' > tlug.9802.s
> 
> But later, I decided to try the same thing with perl and
> couldn't get it to work. So I put the sed script in a file and:
> 
>     s/^>From/From/;


Perl's very picky about what it considers 'operator characters'.  Try
using this line instead:

s/^\>From/From/;

ie, backslashify the >.


sed2perl doesn't create the most beautiful output, does it? :)

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