Greetings,
I've been maintaining some 9k html records for a few years
now. The names of the files begin with the same 3 alpha
characters, followed by 4, or less digits (0-9).
I've been maintaining them via quick one-off sed scripts.
But recently I decided I needed to re-numerate them, as
it would be ultimately be more efficient. I also decided
(given I /really/ love perl) that it would make more sense
to maintain a set of Perl scripts to better maintain these
documents, then it hit me -- I have no idea how to take on
the task of re-numerating the references within these
documents.
PROBLEM:
changing all references to:
abc[0-9][0-9][0-9].html
into
abc0[0-9][0-9][0-9].html
the same goes for abc[0-9][0-9].html
in short; I need all of the files to be
4 digits long -- not 1,2, & 3, as they are now.
I'm fair with search & replace, add, and delete. But I
/suck/ at
hold patterns -- which I think I need
here. I tried to match against:
/abc1[0-9][0-9].html
with the intent of matching within the 100-199.html
documents. But all my efforts were an epic
fail.
Pointers, solutions would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank you for all your time, and consideration.
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use perl::always;
my $perl_version = "5.12.4";
print $perl_version;
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