Re: multi-line in-place edits

I am not sure I understand the value of your task (or what you meant by adding \266 bytes). Are you trying to undo a command-line mistake? Are you trying to use some tool that avoids working inside braces, so you're wrapping the file in braces? It all sounds odd. This doesn't work,

perl -p -i -e 'BEGIN { print "{" } END { print "}" }' filename.txt
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but this does. Not as quick to type, but...

echo "{" >tmp
cat filename.txt >>tmp
echo "}" >>tmp
mv tmp filename.txt
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Re^2: multi-line in-place edits by Tuppence (Pilgrim) on Feb 15, 2005 at 20:08 UTC
I provided a simplified example to get the multi-line edit syntax worked out. I was attempting to do some code refactoring with in-place editing, when due to failing memory I replaced all the \n's with a upper ascii char. I managed to get that fixed, and just needed the correct syntax for multi line edits. `-l0666` is so close to the `-0777` that I really needed I think perl should have just known I was doing the wrong thing and Done the Right Thing ;) /joke	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: multi-line in-place edits
by Tuppence (Pilgrim) on Feb 15, 2005 at 20:08 UTC

I provided a simplified example to get the multi-line edit syntax worked out.

I was attempting to do some code refactoring with in-place editing, when due to failing memory I replaced all the \n's with a upper ascii char. I managed to get that fixed, and just needed the correct syntax for multi line edits.

-l0666 is so close to the -0777 that I really needed I think perl should have just known I was doing the wrong thing and Done the Right Thing ;) /joke

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