Re: simple regex question

Assuming that you want just the lines that have 1 and then whitespace after that, and then text the following code will work

if (/^1\s+/) {
    print FILE, "$_\n";
}
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Re: Re: simple regex question by Chmrr (Vicar) on Mar 03, 2001 at 07:37 UTC
A more general solution might be `/^1\b/`. Of course, the previous suggestion will almost certainly work also, but in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, and not fully knowing the format of the data.. perl -e 'print "I love $^X$\"$]!$/"#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: simple regex question by petral (Curate) on Mar 03, 2001 at 08:13 UTC
A more general solution might be `/^1\b/`. ...or, borrowing from Tuna below: `/^1\D/`. p	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: simple regex question by beowulf (Scribe) on Mar 03, 2001 at 07:49 UTC
I was thinking about that too, actually Life? What's a life?	[reply]
Re: Re: simple regex question by Rudif (Hermit) on Mar 04, 2001 at 03:37 UTC
Life? What's a life? anagram of a file? an ordered sequence ending with EOL?	[reply]