SPUG: perl one-liner help

[John W. Krahn]

Duane Blanchard wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> This should be the simplest thing, but I'm not able to get it.
> 
> I have a list of names in a file separated by a semicolon and a space:
> 
> Starr, Ringo; McCartney, Paul; Lennon, John; Harrison, George;
> 
> and I want to substitute each /; / with a /\n/.
> 
> I'm running WinXP.
> 
> perl -e "s/; /\n/" desktop/list.txt
> 
> Thanks for any tips.


perl -F";\s+" -lane"print for @F"  desktop/list.txt




John
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