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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A Macro System for Perl?

by educated_foo (Vicar)
on May 08, 2002 at 04:24 UTC ( [id://164904]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A Macro System for Perl?
in thread A Macro System for Perl?

s/box of toothpicks/box of gears and springs/. Sure, there's a fully-functional clock in there somewhere, but I'm not going to find it. Seriously, though, glancing at the source for a couple of seconds makes me think it will behave like CPP for simple things, with '#' replaced by '#%'. My favorite thing, though, was the TODO file, which I quote in its entirety:

* #if



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Re7: A Macro System for Perl?
by belg4mit (Prior) on May 08, 2002 at 04:36 UTC
    Toothpicks was a Douglas Adams reference ;-) Wonko The Sane.

    --
    perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"

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