PERL Miscellaneous - Re: search and replace help

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Re: search and replace help

Matt Garrish

2006-05-31, 10:00 pm

<bhooshan.dixit@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1149122210.685665.105900@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
> I have a file which looks like this
> ^$-=(BILL_STG.BILL
> ^$-=(BILL_STG.BILL_SQ
>
> i need help in perl to open the file, clean out the wierd charcters
> before the 'BILL' on each line and write back to file. The characters
> appear on start of each line. I need to elminate everything until and
> including the '(' character
>

What have you tried so far? What are "weird" characters? Which of the two
BILLs on the above lines do you remove until?

I would suggest you start with a little reading:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlopentut.html
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html

Matt

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