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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Third line occurrence replacement Post 302211467 by sirokket16 on Thursday 3rd of July 2008 11:49:27 AM
Old 07-03-2008
Maybe I should be more clear with the issue I'm having. I want to find the third occurrence at the beginning of a line. So if I have a file that reads:

blah blah
blah
pat1 blah
pat1
pat1 blah // <- find this one and replace with pat2
pat1
.
.
blah

I want to find the third pat1 and overlook the first two.
 

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CountryCode(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  CountryCode(3pm)

NAME
NCC::CountryCode - Perl extension for blah blah blah SYNOPSIS
use NCC::CountryCode; my $cc = new NCC::CountryCode(); my $cc_hash = $cc->getCCs(); print ($cc->isCC('NL')) ? "exists" : "non-existing"; $cc->CC2Country('fr'); $cc->Country2CC('russia'); DESCRIPTION
This module provides class and several methods to simplify mapping between country names and country codes, as they assigned in the ISO3166. The CC2Country() method maps country code to the corresponding country name or empty string, if it doesn't exist. The Country2CC() tries to map passed country name into country code. As the spelling of the name may vary, this function tries to find all possible matches for passed name. In array context method returns hash of country codes and names, in scalar - a string, containing all possible country codes and corresponding country names. The isCC() method verifies, that passed country code is a legal one and returns it in upper case. Otherwise it returns empty string. The getCCs() method returns the reference to the internal hash, that containes all the country codes with corresponding them country names. BUGS
In addition to the country codes defined by ISO3166 standart this module also introduce 'UK' as a synonim for 'GB' and 'EU' as additional 'virtual' name for the Europe itself. AUTHOR
Timur Bakeyev, timur@ripe.net SEE ALSO
perl(1). perl v5.10.1 2001-09-10 CountryCode(3pm)
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