Your question basically boils down to "when is it safe to change something into something else"? Without knowledge of the file format you are manipulating, we can't really answer that question. But in broad terms, what you usually end up doing is examine more of the context. For example, instead of blindly modifying line number four, look for a line containing xxxx followed by a line containing yyyy, and only insert a line between those two if they are found. Whether to fail silently or throw an error if the change cannot be made obviously depends a lot on the context and the application.
Another common trick is to insert a comment block or something, and replace the comment block automatically.
Hi There
I have this file that I would like to add entries to, however, there is a "}" as the last line that I need to keep. Basically i would like to know how I can write a script that will add new lines at the second to last line position (ie always add new line above the close bracket)
... (17 Replies)
I have a file with a set of insert statements some of which have a single column value that crosses multiple lines causing the statement to fail in sql*plue. Can someone help me with a sed script to replace the new lines with chr(10)?
here is an example:
insert into mytable(id, field1, field2)... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to insert two new lines in a file:
The file:
".....
......
ULIMIT_MAX_FILES="ulimit -S -n `ulimit -H -n`"
....
....
"
I need to add the lines:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH='$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$APACHE_HOME/modules'
DOWNLOADMODULE_CONF_PATHNAME='$APACHE_HOME/conf/DWLModule.cfg'
right... (2 Replies)
I'm attempting to insert multiple lines before a line matching a given search pattern. These lines are generated in a separate function and can either be piped in as stdout or read from a temporary file.
I've been able to insert the lines from a file after the pattern using:
sed -i '/pattern/... (2 Replies)
I have a directory with several hundred files.
The file format is a space delimited row with an unknown number of columns:
A B C D E F G ...
I need to turn this format
File1 A
File1 B
File2 A
File3 A
File3 B
File3 C
...
I can use grep to display the filename next to each row of... (2 Replies)
this is Korn shell unix.
The scenario is I have a pipe delimited text file which needs to be customized. say for example,I have a pipe delimited text file with 15 columns(| delimited) and 200 rows. currently the 11th and 12th column has null values for all the records(there are other null columns... (4 Replies)
Hi Fellows,
I have been struggling to fix an issue in csv records to compose sql statements and have been really losing sleep over it. Here is the problem:
I have csv files in the following pipe-delimited format:
Column1|Column2|Column3|Column4|NEWLINE
Address Type|some descriptive... (4 Replies)
Greetings all,
I am trying to match a string, and after that insert a few lines above that match.
The string is "Version 1.0.0". I need to insert a few lines ONLY above the first match (there are many Version numbers in the file). The rest of the matches must be ignored. The lines I need to... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have few lines to be inserted in file_lines_to_insert.
In another file final_file, I have to add lines from above file file_lines_to_insert before a particular pattern.
e.g.
$ cat file_lines_to_insert => contents are
abc
def
lkj
In another file final_file, before a... (6 Replies)
GM,
I have an issue at work, which requires a simple solution. But, after multiple attempts, I have not been able to hit on the code needed.
I am assuming that sed, awk or even perl could do what I need.
I have an application that adds extra blank page feeds, for multiple reports, when... (7 Replies)
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ppi::token::comment5.18
PPI::Token::Comment(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation PPI::Token::Comment(3)NAME
PPI::Token::Comment - A comment in Perl source code
INHERITANCE
PPI::Token::Comment
isa PPI::Token
isa PPI::Element
SYNOPSIS
# This is a PPI::Token::Comment
print "Hello World!"; # So it this
$string =~ s/ foo # This, unfortunately, is not :(
bar
/w;
DESCRIPTION
In PPI, comments are represented by "PPI::Token::Comment" objects.
These come in two flavours, line comment and inline comments.
A "line comment" is a comment that stands on its own line. These comments hold their own newline and whitespace (both leading and trailing)
as part of the one "PPI::Token::Comment" object.
An inline comment is a comment that appears after some code, and continues to the end of the line. This does not include whitespace, and
the terminating newlines is considered a separate PPI::Token::Whitespace token.
This is largely a convenience, simplifying a lot of normal code relating to the common things people do with comments.
Most commonly, it means when you "prune" or "delete" a comment, a line comment disappears taking the entire line with it, and an inline
comment is removed from the inside of the line, allowing the newline to drop back onto the end of the code, as you would expect.
It also means you can move comments around in blocks much more easily.
For now, this is a suitably handy way to do things. However, I do reserve the right to change my mind on this one if it gets dangerously
anachronistic somewhere down the line.
METHODS
Only very limited methods are available, beyond those provided by our parent PPI::Token and PPI::Element classes.
line
The "line" accessor returns true if the "PPI::Token::Comment" is a line comment, or false if it is an inline comment.
SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module.
AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.18.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Token::Comment(3)