in reply to search/replace one liners without clobbering

Are you looking to strip the c off the front and the f or l off the back?

perl -e '$tgt =~ s/\bc?(\w+?)(?:f|l)?\b/$1/g;'

Feed the target token into it to strip off leading c and trailing f or l. Of course, this would make a bool into a boo.

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Re^2: search/replace one liners without clobbering
by f77coder (Beadle) on Feb 26, 2016 at 02:04 UTC

    yes bool would get mangled, also any print f gets mangled as well if rint is replaced.

    cases are 

    prefix 'c' OR 'f' OR both or neither
suffix, 'l' OR 'f' OR both or neither

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      You asked for a oneliner, which by I think you mean to give each function separately, so for "exp", it would be:

      perl -pi -e 's/\bc?${tgt}[fl]?\b/$tgt/g'  -s -- -tgt=exp *.c;

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      The problem is fabs, which means you need to consider it separately:

      perl -pi -e 'for $tgt(qw(exp log pow sqrt sin cos tan asin acos atan sinh cosh tanh asinh acosh atanh)){ s/\bc?${tgt}[fl]?\b/$tgt/g };s/\b[cf]abs[fl]?\b/fabs/g' *.c;

      addendum, with the | or you wanted, it would be:

      perl -pi -e 's/\bc?(exp|log|pow|sqrt|sin|cos|tan|asin|acos|atan|sinh|c
+osh|tanh|asinh|acosh|atanh)[fl]?\b/$1/g; s/\b[cf]abs[fl]?\b/fabs/g'

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