Re: finding Makefiles which containing a backslash continuation character

Ken Wolcott wrote:
> Hi;

Hello,

>   I need to find Makefiles that contain a backslash line continuation
> character followed by a blank (or whitespace only) line.  I tried a
> regular expression first but just couldn't get it right.  I then tried
> comparing by a pair of strings, but that isn't right either.
>
> [snip code]

This will do what you want:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use diagnostics;

while ( <> ) {
my $line_num = $.;
if ( /\\\s*$/ ) {
my $line_before;
if ( ( $line_before = <> ) =~ /^\s*$/ ) {
print "$ARGV has a backslash continuation to a following blank line at line 
$line_num\n";
}
else {
$_ = $line_before;
redo;
}
}
}

__END__



John
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