[ale] Perl Problem

[Drew Brown]

The solution worked.

Thank you!

Drew


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>wrote:

> I don't know how you could have even gotten perl to do what you want
> with a "remove[d]" pattern. Here is a working gawk code sample that
> filters you posting in the archive:
>
> curl -s http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/2010-May/119429.html | gawk
> '/^[[:space:]]*\/\/[[:space:]]*remove/{r=1}; r<1{print};
> /^[[:space:]]*\/\/[[:space:]]*removed/{r=0};'
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Drew Brown <nupedrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a script that has code marked like so:
> >
> >    // remove
> >    <the code and text>
> >    // removed
> >
> > I want to remove <the code and text> from the file.
> >
> >
> > In the past, I believe I used the following:
> >
> > perl -p -ibak -e "s/\s*\/\/remove[d]?\s*//g" ../*
> >
> > It does not seem to be working anymore.
> >
> > Any insight is appreciated.
> >
> > Drew
> >
> >
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