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| DATE | 2011-12-15 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] A simple perl script
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:54:19PM -0800, Elfen Magix wrote:
> I was thinking of Grep as well.
>
you can perldoc the perl grep function or just use a regex test
next CLOSE_CHAPTER if m"Chapter \d\d"
or something like that. I'm rusty.
> The problem is simple (maybe not):
> -Its a story text file in acsii.
> -It has many chapters
> -The chapter index numbers 1 - 13 are fine, skips 14, and continues with 15 to 75.
> -The format of the chapter line (all 75 are in 1 file) is:
> "Chapter XX: Chapter Name" Where XX is any number from 0 - 9, counting all 75 chapters.
>
> I was thinking of grep to find the chapter lines (which I can do and does work) but changing the numbers is what I cant figure out.
>
> grep 'Chapter' /file name? - gets the chapter lines and posts them. But changing them?
>
> BTW- I can remove chapters 1 - 13 temporarily while this change happens.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Kevin Mark
> Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] A simple perl script
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:27:39PM -0800, Elfen Magix wrote:
> > I need a simple thing that goes through a file to find "Chapter [and a number]
> > ". Then it must increment that number by 1 and resave the file without altering
> > nothing else.
> >
> > I know I've seen this, and even wrote one years ago myself, but I cant for the
> > life of me remember how!
> >
> > Thanks.
> That is sort-of a loose definition for a program specification.
> if its one line in one file, you can just open it in vi and search for it and fix it.
> if you need it done in 10's or 100's of places, if might be a few lines of sed, awk or grep.
>
> grep "Chapter" filename
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