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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find line before blank Post 302299321 by rikxik on Thursday 19th of March 2009 10:36:13 PM
Old 03-19-2009
Code:
$ cat sd
sed -n '/^$/!{
h
}
/^$/{
N
/^\n$/ {
x
p
q
}
}' fl
$
$ cat fl
someword someword:1
new-word new-word abcd
someword someword:10
new-word new-word abcd
thisis whatIneed:3


someword someword:5
new-word new-word abcd
$
$ sd
thisis whatIneed:3

Be careful when you cut paste this - there MUST NOT be any trailing spaces.

Last edited by rikxik; 03-19-2009 at 11:49 PM..
 

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SQL::ReservedWords::SQLServer(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			SQL::ReservedWords::SQLServer(3pm)

NAME
SQL::ReservedWords::SQLServer - Reserved SQL words by SQL Server SYNOPSIS
if ( SQL::ReservedWords::SQLServer->is_reserved( $word ) ) { print "$word is a reserved SQL Server word!"; } DESCRIPTION
Determine if words are reserved by SQL Server. METHODS
is_reserved( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by SQL Server 7, 2000 or 2005. is_reserved_by_sqlserver7( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by SQL Server 7. is_reserved_by_sqlserver2000( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by SQL Server 2000. is_reserved_by_sqlserver2005( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by SQL Server 2005. reserved_by( $word ) Returns a list with SQL Server versions that reserves $word. words Returns a list with all reserved words. EXPORTS
Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported: is_reserved is_reserved_by_sqlserver7 is_reserved_by_sqlserver2000 is_reserved_by_sqlserver2005 reserved_by words SEE ALSO
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214.aspx AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org" COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-28 SQL::ReservedWords::SQLServer(3pm)
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