in reply to Re: Replacing Lines in 100 Gig file
in thread Replacing Lines in 100 Gig file

Neat. I think I know what it's doing but I'm not sure why. Could you point me in the direction of the appropriate perldoc that explains the .. foo?

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Re^3: Replacing Lines in 100 Gig file
by bgreenlee (Friar) on Dec 17, 2004 at 18:31 UTC

    perldoc perlop. Search for "flip-flop".

    In a nutshell, though, it evaluates to false until the first condition is satisfied, and then evaluates to true until the second condition is satisfied.

    -b