in reply to [perlrun/perlre] one-liner to match "readable" lines

The variation of this sort of thing that I tend to use:

perl -ne'/^[A-Za-z]/&&print'

Besides being completely straight forward, that beats Abigail's by one stroke... :-) I do, however, agree with the others that have suggested grep(1) or strings(1). In particular, grep(1) seems to make much more sense in this particular case.

-sauoq
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Re2: [perlrun/perlre] one-liner to match "readable" lines
by blakem (Monsignor) on Oct 08, 2002 at 02:08 UTC
    As long as you're golfing, how about:
    perl -pe'$_ x=/^[A-Z]/i'
    Update: trimmed a couple more chars...

    -Blake