O Wise and Awesome Monks, a text file contains lines of fields seperated by some delimiter; space for example; some lines not all will have in field 2 a value like an inital (e.g., A. or B. or Jr.) for those lines with such a value in field 2, we wish to have that value removed or deleted. We also wish to do this as a one-line. Here's what we have so far. What say you?

c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -e "while (<>) { next if ($F[2] ~= /A-Za-z/\.;) print \"\"}" < text.txt > xt.txt

or

c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -e -i.bak "while (<>) { next if ($F[2] ~= /A-Za-z/\.;) print \"\"}" text.txt

In reply to On Match Remove Field by rfransix

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