Unfortunately we don't have ruby/glark/tac etc installed which is why I was looking towards an sed/awk solution.
Sorry if the question was more confusing than necessary.
Basically here's some sample data in a file :
The output I'm looking for is
corresponding to the previous policy reference before the "CS95869005 No BC record found. Please review urgently" line
but when I run the command
I get
I understand why I'm getting the extra policy numbers (due to the b=10) but I can't shorten the gap as I don't know how many lines will be between the message "CS95869005 No BC record found. Please review urgently" and the previous "CS02010002 Policy " message.
This is why I was looking for a stop at the first occurrence in the backwards search or something to that effect.
Last edited by SaltyDog; 03-26-2012 at 02:02 PM..
Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
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Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitVoidMap(User Contributed Perl DocumentPerl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitVoidMap(3pm)NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitVoidMap - Don't use "map" in void contexts.
AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
DESCRIPTION
"map" and "grep" are intended to be pure functions, not mutators. If you want to iterate with side-effects, then you should use a proper
"for" or "foreach" loop.
grep{ print frobulate($_) } @list; #not ok
print map{ frobulate($_) } @list; #ok
grep{ $_ = lc $_ } @list; #not ok
for( @list ){ $_ = lc $_ }; #ok
map{ push @frobbed, frobulate($_) } @list; #not ok
@frobbed = map { frobulate($_) } @list; #ok
CONFIGURATION
This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Imaginative Software Systems. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license
can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.14.2 2012-06-07 Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitVoidMap(3pm)