Re: Deleting text from a file using regex

You need the "g" modifier to replace all instances.

perl -pe"s/-\w{2,}/ /g" infile > outfile
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Or in-place:

perl -i.bak -pe"s/-\w{2,}/ /g" file
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Or in code

while (<$fh_in>) {
   s/-\w{2,}/ /g;
   print $fh_out $_;
}
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Re^2: Deleting text from a file using regex by b_vulnerability (Novice) on Nov 10, 2008 at 10:48 UTC
I forgot the g modifier, apparently, because now my regex works just fine! Thanks, really!	[reply]