[pm-h] Next month's topic
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej at anomaly.org
Tue Mar 21 18:17:03 PST 2006
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:34:00 -0600
Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I pass this on long ago. This reg expression method is
> valuable for reading many types of files:
>
> next unless ($_ =~
> /^[^\t]*\t[^\t]*\t[^\t]*\t[^\t]*\t[^\t]*\t[^\t]*\t[^\t]*\tAR\t/i);
Oh, the "next unless line_test" technique. One of my favorite variations of
this is:
next unless /\S/;
for skipping blank lines.
That's a really good technique to remind people about.
G. Wade
--
Virtual is when it's not but it looks like it is and transparent is when it
is but it looks like it isn't. -- Rick Hoselton
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