[kw-pm] Last night's meeting

abez abez at abez.ca
Fri Jun 19 07:29:12 PDT 2009


So AWK's FNR is equal to perl's $.

That's neat, thanks for that :)

abram

Raymond wrote:
> (Replying to all this time, oops)
> 
>>From the above:
> 
>  $ perl -ne'rand++$n<1?$s=$_:1;END{print$s}' <alpha.html
> 
> No need to increment a counter like $n, just use $. which gives the
> line number 1 indexed.
> 
>  $ perl -ne'rand$.<1?$a=$_:1;END{print$a}' <alpha.html
> 
> Also replaced $s with $a so it runs safe under 'warnings'. ;) Two more
> characters saved.
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