On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:55:56PM +0000, fergal daly wrote:
> perl -pe '$i=1;s/,/$i++=~m#4|5|6#?"":","/ge' filename
wow. a nested r.e., an implied loop. surely a functional language
could do no better? anyone know guile or ocaml? and not only is it
truly gorgeous but...
> which is shorter and more perverse than anything I've seen so far, also,
> you can get it to eliminate different commas just by changing the 4|5|6
it's configurable!
do you teach perl - wasn't someone looking for perl classes? here's
yer man!
kevin
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