From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T14:51:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Noob wants Q&D pointer, regexp replacement.

Charles Mills wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> William James wrote:
>>> ssi@interlog.com wrote:
>>>> Hello, I do perl once every 5 years.  Or longer.  I hate having to read
>>>> chapter 1, page 1 again every time ;-)...
>>>>
>>>> Can someone point me to a script that does almost what I want... and
>>>> I'm sure I can touch it up to do what I want.
>>>>
>>>> I want to search file1 for regexp1.  Each time I find it, I want to
>>>> replace it with the entire contents of file2.
>>>>
>>>> When done, I want to replace file1 with the result.
>>>>
>>>> There are probably a hundred perl scripts on the web that do
>>>> approximately that without me reading chapter 1 again ;-)...
>>>
>>> Richard, since you use Perl so infrequently that you have
>>> to start on page 1, why not switch to an easier language?
>>> Once you begin using Ruby, you will welcome opportunities
>>> to use it.
>>>
>>> And note the arrogance and rudeness of "Perl gurus".
>>> They will condescend to help you only when they are
>>> "bored".
>>>
>>> #!ruby
>>>
>>> # This program takes at least two file names on the command
>>> # line.  The first file is read and its contents stored in
>>> # contents.  All subsequent files are edited "in place", the
>>> # word "target" being replaced with the contents of the first
>>> # file.
>>>
>>> contents = IO.read( ARGV.shift ).chomp
>>>
>>> # Start in-place processing; make backups with the extension.
>>> $-i = ".bak"
>>>
>>> while line = gets
>>>   print line.sub( /target/, contents )
>>> end
>>
>> Anybody over at comp.lang.ruby who has a really trivial task for this
>> William character who obviously has nothing to do? Be sure it would be
>> appreciated at comp.lang.perl.misc.
> 
> I assume this isn't a troll.

Thanks, but I'm afraid you missed the point. _William_ is trolling at 
comp.lang.perl.misc, and I was hoping you were able to keep him busy here...

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