Multi line perl pie

dlublink · 07-06-2006, 02:32 PM

Hey,

I am trying to replace a 6 line string in 123 files with a single command.

I tried this:

perl -p -i -e 'm/regular expression/new value/g'

and it says:

Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "m/WHTML.*WHTML/candy"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "m/WHTML.*WHTML/candy"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

Any ideas of how I can get it to work?

Thanks,
David

cupubboy · 07-06-2006, 02:41 PM

I forgot my regexp a long time ago unfotunatly

But I can at least say that m/ is for matching only .. s/ is for replace ... as I remember .. I may be wrong though

dlublink · 07-06-2006, 02:45 PM

I found a website that said use the m modifier to do multiline...

spooon · 07-06-2006, 04:30 PM

modifiers go at the end. Specifically, the "m" modifier makes the "^" and "$" match only the beginning and end of the string (instead of beginning and end of lines), and the "s" modifier makes "." match newlines. So it seems that the "s" modifier is more what you need. try

s/regular expression/new value/gs

theNbomr · 07-06-2006, 10:21 PM

Try something like

Code:

perl -p -i -e 's/regular expression/new value/g;'  yourFileToParse

--- rod.