Re^2: Removing everything before the first comma separator on each line of a text file

[zodell]

Quick question..in your reply, you have the actual text from the file within the code? Or is that to show what portion of the data that code is to be affecting?

[Anonymous Monk]

johngg is using a here-document to construct a string consisting of the input data, and is using open with a reference to access it as an in-memory file. Also, the output of the script is shown in-line (as it would look when run from a terminal).