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Way too verbose! ;-) 
  perl -n000 -pe "$_=qq(@{{/(.*?): (.*)/g}}{name,date}\n)"

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Re: Re: Re: Simple perl one-liner for transforming text files
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 06, 2003 at 06:48 UTC

    Sorry, I wasn't wearing my golf shoes:^)

    jdporter++. I physically applauded that once I stared at it long enough to work out how the hell it worked.

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    1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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    3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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