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Old 10-05-2018
Replace all string matches in file with unique random number

Hello
Take this file...
Code:
Test01
Ref test
Version 01

Test02
Ref test
Version 02

Test66
Ref test
Version 66

Test99
Ref test
Version 99

I want to substitute every occurrence of Test[0-9]{2} with a unique random number, so for example, if I was using sed, substitution would be something like the below but obviously the below does reevaluate the random number for each occurrence of Test[0-9]{2}
Code:
num=$((1+RANDOM 20 % 60))
sed -ri "s/Test[0-9]{2}/Test${num}/" test_file

So on the execution of substitution, the file would read something like
Code:
Test59
Ref test
Version 01

Test57
Ref test
Version 02

Test48
Ref test
Version 66

Test51
Ref test
Version 99

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use CODE tags when displaying sample input and sample output as well as when displaying code segments.

Last edited by MadeInGermany; 10-05-2018 at 09:03 AM..
 

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Test::Moose(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  Test::Moose(3pm)

NAME
Test::Moose - Test functions for Moose specific features VERSION
version 2.0603 SYNOPSIS
use Test::More plan => 1; use Test::Moose; meta_ok($class_or_obj, "... Foo has a ->meta"); does_ok($class_or_obj, $role, "... Foo does the Baz role"); has_attribute_ok($class_or_obj, $attr_name, "... Foo has the 'bar' attribute"); DESCRIPTION
This module provides some useful test functions for Moose based classes. It is an experimental first release, so comments and suggestions are very welcome. EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
meta_ok ($class_or_object) Tests if a class or object has a metaclass. does_ok ($class_or_object, $role, ?$message) Tests if a class or object does a certain role, similar to what "isa_ok" does for the "isa" method. has_attribute_ok($class_or_object, $attr_name, ?$message) Tests if a class or object has a certain attribute, similar to what "can_ok" does for the methods. with_immutable { CODE } @class_names Runs CODE (which should contain normal tests) twice, and make each class in @class_names immutable in between the two runs. TODO
Convert the Moose test suite to use this module. Here is a list of possible functions to write immutability predicates anon-class predicates discovering original method from modified method attribute metaclass predicates (attribute_isa?) SEE ALSO
Test::More BUGS
See "BUGS" in Moose for details on reporting bugs. AUTHOR
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