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Old 01-19-2012
Question editing line in text file adding number to value in file

I have a text file that has data like:

Code:
Data    "12345#22"
Fred
ID 12345
Age 45
Wilma
Dino
Data  "123#22"
Tarzan
ID 123
Age 33
Jane

I need to figure out a way of adding 1,000,000 to the specific lines (always same format) in the file, so it becomes:

Code:
Data    "1012345#22"
Fred
ID 1012345
Age 45
Wilma
Dino
Data  "1000123#22"
Tarzan
ID 1000123
Age 33
Jane

Of course this data is completely made up, but the principal is the same. One number is "VVVV#22" or "VVVVV#22" (ie, number is always after a single quote and before a # on a line called Data), and the other number is always the second word on an ID line. (both number the same in each stanza)

I can prepend the number, but can't figure out how to treat it as a number and add a value to it and replace...

Thanks in advance for any help...
 

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Data(3) 						User Contributed Perl Documentation						   Data(3)

NAME
Gimp::Data - Set and get state data. SYNOPSIS
use Gimp::Data; $Gimp::Data{'value1'} = "Hello"; print $Gimp::Data{'value1'},", World!! "; DESCRIPTION
With this module, you can access plugin-specific (or global) data in Gimp, i.e. you can store and retrieve values that are stored in the main Gimp application. An example would be to save parameter values in Gimp, so that on subsequent invocations of your plug-in, the user does not have to set all parameter values again (Gimp::Fu does this already). %Gimp::Data You can store and retrieve anything you like in this hash. It's contents will automatically be stored in Gimp, and can be accessed in later invocations of your plug-in. Be aware that other plug-ins store data in the same "hash", so better prefix your key with something unique, like your plug-in's name. As an example, the Gimp::Fu module uses "function_name/_fu_data" to store its data. This module might use a persistant implementation, i.e. your data might survive a restart of the Gimp application, but you cannot count on this. "Gimp::Data" will try to freeze your data when you pass in a reference. On retrieval, the data is thawed again. See Storable for more info. This might be implemented through either Storable or Data::Dumper, or not implemented at all (i.e. silently fail) ;) PERSISTANCE
"Gimp::Data" contains the following functions to ease applications where persistence for perl data structures is required: Gimp::Data::freeze(reference) Freeze (serialize) the reference. Gimp::Data::thaw(data) Thaw (unserialize) the dsata and return the original reference. LIMITATIONS
You cannot store references, and you cannot (yet) iterate through the keys (with "keys", "values" or "each"). AUTHOR
Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com> SEE ALSO
perl(1), Gimp. perl v5.8.0 2001-12-06 Data(3)
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