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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Script to add text before the first word on a line in a textfile. Post 302509543 by kurumi on Thursday 31st of March 2011 03:53:15 AM
Old 03-31-2011
if you want to prepend word to line, there is no need to do substitution (expensive operation). Just "print" the word before the line
Code:
$ ruby -ne 'print "word #{$_}"' file

applies to other tools/language as well.
 

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sql::reservedwords::postgresql

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

NAME

       SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL - Reserved SQL words by PostgreSQL

SYNOPSIS

	  if ( SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL->is_reserved( $word ) ) {
	      print "$word is a reserved PostgreSQL word!";
	  }

DESCRIPTION

       Determine if words are reserved by PostgreSQL.

METHODS

       is_reserved( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either PostgreSQL 7.3, 7.4, 8.0 or 8.1.

       is_reserved_by_postgresql7( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either PostgreSQL 7.3 or 7.4.

       is_reserved_by_postgresql8( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either PostgreSQL 8.0 or 8.1.

       reserved_by( $word )
	   Returns a list with PostgreSQL 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_postgresql7
       is_reserved_by_postgresql8
       reserved_by
       words

SEE ALSO

       SQL::ReservedWords

       <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/>

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::PostgreSQL(3pm)
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