Re^2: how to check for a word in a file and if found remove that line, the above line and the below line from the file.


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Re^2: how to check for a word in a file and if found remove that line, the above line and the below line from the file.

by ikegami (Patriarch)

on Jan 22, 2016 at 16:27 UTC ( [id://1153382]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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That fails if there are two lines in a row that matches.

That can fail if the last line matches. You can't rely on a file handle return EOF more than once.

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Re^3: how to check for a word in a file and if found remove that line, the above line and the below line from the file. by hdb (Monsignor) on Jan 22, 2016 at 19:16 UTC
Damn! Life is just too complicated. Thanks for pointing this out.	[reply]

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