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Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports.

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Search and replace on command line

You can use -p option (see perl --help): assume loop like -n but print line also, like sed So the script becomes: echo hi | perl -pe 's/i/o/g' which is really compiled to: $ perl -MO=Deparse …
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More elegant way to get timestamp from day/hour? (Perl)

There's a timestamp file available here: http://coolwx.com/buoydata/data/curr/timestamp, so I think it'll be easier if you download and parse both data and timestamp files. You can parse the timesta …
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What changes, if any, are required to make the following Perl eval bullet proof?

Ad. 1. Yes and no - there are still some pitfalls (please read further). Ad. 2. You must remember about returning truthy value from eval block because it evaluates to last value in block unless some …
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