[ILUG] Regex Question

[Lee Hosty]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Lee Hosty wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, John Allen wrote:
>
> > On Monday 27 September 2004 15:19, Gareth Eason wrote:
> > > 	There is probably a better way, but I would crack out the perl on this
> > > one.
> > >
> >
> > Or
> > # perl -pi -e 's|<div class="foo"></div>|<div class="foo">TEST</div>|g' foobar.html
>
> perl -pi.bak -e 'if (!($. % 3)) { s|<div class="foo"></div>|<div class="foo">TEST</div>|g; }" foobar.html

Bah, sorry. That last " should be a ' of course. Or just add:

if !($.%3)

to the end of Johns, like so:

perl -pi -e 's|<div class="foo"></div>|<div class="foo">TEST</div>|g if !($.%3)' foobar.html