OK, I beg your indulgence - I'm away from my Perl books, I'm having a massive brain fart, and I can't seem to find the answer via any sort of searching.

What I want to do is search a text file for a line (or rather a part of a line), and then insert another line of text directly above it, after what is already entered there.

For instance, the text file might say:

(Settings)
foo=1
(baz-123)

and I want to ultimately end up with is:

(Settings)
foo=1
bar=2
(baz-123)

Also, the last line may change from file to file, eg, it may be (baz-456) or (baz-678) or whatever, but the "(baz" will be constant.

Thanks in advance,

Glenn

In reply to insert line of text above a line by mabman

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