perl- read search and replace string from the file
Dear all,
I have a number of files and each file has two sections separated by a blank line. At the top section, I have lines which describes the values of the alphabetical characters,
Now I want "s" should be replaced by 0.123 in last three lines, "d" by -2.33 etc. Number of alphabetical characters vary in each file and also the number of lines below the blank line may vary.
I am seeking for a perl program preferably, to automate text processing.
-regards and thanks,
satti
Hi All,
I have a file that I need to be able to find a pattern match on a line, search that line for a text pattern, and replace that text.
An example of 4 lines in my file is:
1. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData ReplaceMe moreData
2. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData moreData... (4 Replies)
I am very new to Perl. I am struggling so hard to search a date (such as 10/09/2009, 10-09-2009) from a text file and replace with a string (say DATE) using Perl. Please help me out. Thanks in advance.
Regds
Doren (4 Replies)
Hi
I am looking for a particular string in a file.If the string exists, then I want to replace another string with some other text.Once replaced, search for the same text after that character position in the file. :wall:
E.g: Actual File content:
Hello
Name: Nitin Raj
Welcome to Unix... (4 Replies)
I have file t1.log
Contents of t1.log file
Number of records processed:
Number of records rejected:
Error :
xyz ..........
abc ..........
aaa _]
start time :
end time :
Please let me know how i can remove the contents highlighted in red in the t1.log file.
Thanks
Sam (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am not a C programmer. The only C exposure I have is reading and completing the exercises from the C (ANSI C ) Programming Language book:o
At the moment, I am using the UNIX strings command to extract information for a binary file and grepping for a particular string and the value... (3 Replies)
Hi all, the value in the following file is just an example. It could be a different value/network addresses.
Here is my example of initial output in a file name net.txt
Initial Output, net.txt
The goal is to produce the following format which is to convert from CIDR to Netmask... (6 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have a text file named file1.txt that is formatted like this:
001 , ID , 20000
002 , Name , Brandon
003 , Phone_Number , 616-234-1999
004 , SSNumber , 234-23-234
005 , Model , Toyota
007 , Engine ,V8
008 , GPS , OFF
and I have file2.txt formatted like this:
... (2 Replies)
Hello Forum.
I have a file called abc.sed with the following commands;
s/1/one/g
s/2/two/g
...
I also have a second file called abc.dat and would like to substitute all occurrences of "1 with one", "2 with two", etc and create a new file called abc_new.dat
sed -f abc.sed abc.dat >... (10 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have a requirement in ksh where i have a set of files in a directory. I need to search each and every file if a particular string is present in the file, delete that line and replace that line with another string expression in the same file.
I am very new to unix. Kindly help... (10 Replies)
I have the below string which i need to compare with a file and replace this string in the file which matches closely. Can anyone help me on this.
string(Scenario 1)- user::r--,user::ourfrd:r--
String(Scenario 2)- user::r--
File
****
# file: /local/Desktop/myfile
# owner: me
# group:... (6 Replies)
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nl
NL(1) BSD General Commands Manual NL(1)NAME
nl -- line numbering filter
SYNOPSIS
nl [-p] [-b type] [-d delim] [-f type] [-h type] [-i incr] [-l num] [-n format] [-s sep] [-v startnum] [-w width] [file]
DESCRIPTION
The nl utility reads lines from the named file or the standard input if the file argument is ommitted, applies a configurable line numbering
filter operation and writes the result to the standard output.
The nl utility treats the text it reads in terms of logical pages. Unless specified otherwise, line numbering is reset at the start of each
logical page. A logical page consists of a header, a body and a footer section; empty sections are valid. Different line numbering options
are independently available for header, body and footer sections.
The starts of logical page sections are signalled by input lines containing nothing but one of the following sequences of delimiter charac-
ters:
Line Start of
::: header
:: body
: footer
If the input does not contain any logical page section signalling directives, the text being read is assumed to consist of a single logical
page body.
The following options are available:
-b type Specify the logical page body lines to be numbered. Recognized type arguments are:
a Number all lines.
t Number only non-empty lines.
n No line numbering.
pexpr Number only those lines that contain the basic regular expression specified by expr.
The default type for logical page body lines is t.
-d delim Specify the delimiter characters used to indicate the start of a logical page section in the input file. At most two characters
may be specified; if only one character is specified, the first character is replaced and the second character remains
unchanged. The default delim characters are ``:''.
-f type Specify the same as -b type except for logical page footer lines. The default type for logical page footer lines is n.
-h type Specify the same as -b type except for logical page header lines. The default type for logical page header lines is n.
-i incr Specify the increment value used to number logical page lines. The default incr value is 1.
-l num If numbering of all lines is specified for the current logical section using the corresponding -b a, -f a or -h a option, spec-
ify the number of adjacent blank lines to be considered as one. For example, -l 2 results in only the second adjacent blank
line being numbered. The default num value is 1.
-n format Specify the line numbering output format. Recognized format arguments are:
ln Left justified.
rn Right justified, leading zeros suppressed.
rz Right justified, leading zeros kept.
The default format is rn.
-p Specify that line numbering should not be restarted at logical page delimiters.
-s sep Specify the characters used in separating the line number and the corresponding text line. The default sep setting is a single
tab character.
-v startnum Specify the initial value used to number logical page lines; see also the description of the -p option. The default startnum
value is 1.
-w width Specify the number of characters to be occupied by the line number; in case the width is insufficient to hold the line number,
it will be truncated to its width least significant digits. The default width is 6.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LC_COLLATE environment variables affect the execution of nl as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The nl utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO jot(1), pr(1)STANDARDS
The nl utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The nl utility first appeared in AT&T System V Release 2 UNIX.
BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.
BSD January 26, 2005 BSD