Category: text processing
Author/Contact Info hash h4sh@globo.com
Description: Code usefull to edit files automaticly removing the last "." in the selected string lines. 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
# Get files and skip "." in the selected strings.
# jeffa is right. killlastdot.pl :)
# Usage: ./killlastdot <ENTER> file word

my $FILE = <STDIN> ;
chop $FILE ;
my $VAR = <STDIN> ;
chop $VAR ;
open(GETARQ, "$FILE") ;
my @ARQ = <GETARQ> ;
close(GETARQ) ;
        foreach (@ARQ) {
                if ($_=~/$VAR/) {
                        my $x = $_ ;
                        chop($x) ;
                        chop($x) ;
                        print "$x\n" ;
                        }
        else
        {
        print $_ ;
        }
}
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(jeffa) Re: ident.pl
by jeffa (Bishop) on Aug 01, 2003 at 02:27 UTC
    Since this program removes any trailing dot on lines that contain some particular string, i don't see why you named it ident.pl ... but that's okay. Here is some code that does the same thing as yours, but does so more consisely: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my ($file,$var) = @ARGV;
die "USAGE: $0 file word\n" unless $file and $var;

open GETARG, '<', $file or die "Can't open $file: $!\n";
while (<GETARG>) {
   s/\.$// if /$var/;
   print;
}

close GETARG or die "Couldn't close $file: $!\n";

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    Also, if you don't mind "hard coding" the word you want to match in the code, this can be trimmed down to a one liner: (remember to replace the double quotes with single quotes if you use Win32) 
    perl -pe's/\.$// if /word/' file

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    Perl rules. :)

    jeffa

    L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
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      Also, if you don't mind "hard coding" the word you want to match in the code, this can be trimmed down to a one liner

      Nevermind "hard coding" it... and on Unix, you might as well replace it with an alias. Here's how I'd do that in my shell (bash): 

      alias rmdots="perl -pe 's/\.\$// if /@{[shift]}/'"

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      Uh... (test first!) Make that: 
      alias rmdots="perl -pe 'BEGIN{\$p=shift}s/\.$// if /\$p/'"

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      Usage would be: rmdots pattern file ... 

      -sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
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      perl -pi -e's/(word.*)\.$/$1/' file

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      :-)

      Makeshifts last the longest.

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      jeffa, your code is much more consisely, becouse it shows error messages if the user try a wrong way to input file and word. But it works for me. Anyway i would call this script as "one-way script" becouse i used killlastdot.pl for an especific usage, that i should remove dots from a text file in SQL.
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