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For each line, it either prints the line plus hello (if it's the marker line) ...
That is not entirely true.

The test checks if the line contains the literal text "The marker line", but there could be other text before or after it. However, it wil then only print "The marker line" into the file, actually discarding some "garbage" text.

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Re^3: regular expression
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 01, 2010 at 15:58 UTC
    I said "The idea is". I realise it doesn't quite succeed at executing it.
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