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!

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor


In reply to Re: Re: Path to enlightment by arturo
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