perl script question.

[BjörnAndersson]

If this occures more than once on a line we should have the line as this:
  perl -pi.bak -e 's/\s+\w+_\w+\.?//g;' filename

Notice the added g. :-)

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:33:08PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:10:36PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 
> > 	Folks,
> > 
> > 	Let's see if perl can do this one; it's as obscure a task
> > 	as I've run into.  I have scores of files with:
> > 
> > 	A regular sentence, or phrase. then_one_containing_underscores_-
> > 	between_each_word  Followed by another regular, space-delimited
> > 	sentence.  Followed_by_another_string_with_underscaores.
> > 
> > 	Is there a perl way to get rid of the
> > 	string_containing_underscores and leave the regular sntences??
> > 
> 
>     perl -pi.bak -e 's/\s+\w+_\w+\.?//;' filename
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew	
> 
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