[Israel.pm] perl -i -pe question

[Avishalom Shalit]

sorry , didn't read as far as the if

what are you trying to do ?


-- vish




On 20 February 2012 07:40, Avishalom Shalit <avishalom at gmail.com> wrote:

> because you are setting it to 1 every line
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> try ...BEGIN{$a=1};a++
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> better yet , why not use $. ?
> this is the current line
> -- vish
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> On 20 February 2012 07:33, Dov Levenglick <dov.levenglick at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Why isn't $a incrementing in this one-liner:
>> perl -ibak -pe "$a=1; $a++ if (s/   ADDR_RESET_PAIR/    $a
>> ADDR_RESET_PAIR/);" file.txt
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>> Running this on Win7 (This is perl, v5.6.1 built for
>> MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)
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>> I know it's an antiquated version of Perl, but it's what the company uses.
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>> Best Regards,
>> Dov Levenglick
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