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in reply to adding ";" to void elements

$ echo "a;3 b;2;3 c;5;4 d;6" | perl -pe'y/;//==1&&s/$/;/' a;3; b;2;3 c;5;4 d;6;

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Re^2: adding ";" to void elements
by reasonablekeith (Deacon) on Feb 12, 2008 at 16:53 UTC
    I went beyond the spec, and padded lines with no semi-colons too...
    perl -e 's^$^";"x(2-y-;--)^e' -p data
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    my name's not Keith, and I'm not reasonable.