Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:02:22 -0700 From: Zach Thompson <cublai@lastamericanempire.com> To: ekoz <ekoz@melsa.net.id> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl question Message-ID: <20020318200222.A6691@lastamericanempire.com> In-Reply-To: <001c01c1cee9$54b626d0$d4e18aca@melsa.net.id>; from ekoz@melsa.net.id on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:56:47AM %2B0700 References: <001c01c1cee9$54b626d0$d4e18aca@melsa.net.id>
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* ekoz <ekoz@melsa.net.id> [020318 19:07]: > Hi All, > > I have a little problem with perl. I try to delete a few line in a file with perl. I have a following line : > > cs > cs.tpkkoja > > I use "s/\bcs\b/ /;" to deleting the word "cs" and i don't want to deleting "cs.tpkkoja" but, i get this result : > > .tpkkoja > all the word "cs" is deleted include in "cs.tpkkoja". > Any Suggestions ? If the "cs" you want to delete is always on a line of itself: s/^cs$//; You could add other things like checking for leading/trailing whitespace too. Zach Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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