Re: Simple regexp question


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by Tanktalus (Canon)

on Mar 31, 2006 at 03:42 UTC ( #540359=note: print w/replies, xml )

Need Help??

"I just can't get it to work" implies there is something you've tried. What is it?

/[#*]/ seems like the right idea to me, but perhaps that isn't fitting into the code you've got, so more context would help us help you.

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Re^2: Simple regexp question by droog114 (Initiate) on Mar 31, 2006 at 05:54 UTC
Hi, sorry for the lack of info, I am new at this. Anyways, my text file features the following set of lines at variable lengths # **************************** I basically just want to get rid of all #'s and *'s in the file.	[reply]
Re^3: Simple regexp question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 31, 2006 at 07:21 UTC
`perl -pe "s/[#]//g" infile > outfile` [download] or in-place: `perl -i.bak -pe "s/[#]//g" filename` [download] If you want to delete the entire line, then `perl -pe "next if /[#]/" infile > outfile` [download] or in-place: `perl -i.bak -pe "next if /[#]/" filename` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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