Re^2: editing files with (<>)

$_="" is different from s/.*// because the regexp keeps the line end ("\n" or CR or CRLF or LF)

$\=~s;s*.*;q^|D9JYJ^^qq^\//\\\///^;ex;print

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Re^3: editing files with (<>) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 21, 2004 at 09:43 UTC
I skipped over that since I assumed `$_ = ""` is what he wanted — he is dropping those lines wholesale after all. I should have noted the fact that it was wrong… Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]