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# 8  
Old 06-22-2011
Unfortunately it didn't change anything.
# 9  
Old 06-22-2011
Either you do something wrong or your input is different.
Code:
% cat > testfile
( chp_testfile_0065 Blablabla. )
( chp_testfile_0003 Blablabla )
( chp_testfile_0123 Blablabla )

% perl -pe '$j=sprintf "%05d",++$i;s/\d+ /$j /' testfile 
( chp_testfile_00001 Blablabla. )
( chp_testfile_00002 Blablabla )
( chp_testfile_00003 Blablabla )

# 10  
Old 06-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloomy
Unfortunately it didn't change anything.
Works here. See the output

Code:
 
perl -pe '$j=sprintf "%05d",++$i;s/\d+ /$j /' te1
( chp_testfile_00001 Blablabla. )
( chp_testfile_00002 Blablabla )
( chp_testfile_00003 Blablabla )

# 11  
Old 06-22-2011
I honestly have no clue what's going wrong here. I'm not doing this for the first time, and the way I'm doing it has worked before.

When I run the command

perl -pe '$j=sprintf "%05d",++$i;s/\d+ "/$j "/' q6.txt

the file looks exactly like it looked before.

I attached the file, it would be great if you could have a look at it. Thanks!
q6.txt (995.4 KB) 
# 12  
Old 06-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloomy
I honestly have no clue what's going wrong here. I'm not doing this for the first time, and the way I'm doing it has worked before.

When I run the command

perl -pe '$j=sprintf "%05d",++$i;s/\d+ "/$j "/' q6.txt

the file looks exactly like it looked before.

I attached the file, it would be great if you could have a look at it. Thanks!
Remove the double quotes in the script.

Code:
 
perl -pe '$j=sprintf "%05d",++$i;s/\d+ /$j /' q6.txt

# 13  
Old 06-22-2011
It's not enough, there are tabs after number, so:
Code:
perl -pe '$j=sprintf "%05d",++$i;s/\d+\s/$j /' q6.txt

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