OK, I ++'d KM for his answer, since it gives what was asked for -- a hint. Slightly more than a hint:
# FILE is open for read, OUTPUT is open for writing
while (<FILE>) {
s/^(\d+:)//; # take $_, replace one or more
# digits at the beginning of the line
#followed by a : with
#nothing
print OUTPUT;
}
Note: that may not be exactly what you want; for how to change it, see KM's first reference. 'Course, there's some one-liner goodness to be had here too (you can do this on the command line with one -- albeit complex -- command. For that, see:
perldoc perlrun
Specifically, the -p switch).
Good luck!
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