Re: Strange grep and matching behaviour...

[vladb]

How about this:

sysopen (FILE,$filename,O_RDONLY) or die "Error! $!\n";
my (@slurp) = grep !/fubar/,<FILE>;
close FILE;

Let the almighty grep take care of filtering all lines containing 'foobar' out. The match should do it just fine.

I tested similar script with this command:

echo 'fubar\nfoo' | perl -e '@stuff=grep \!/fubar/, <STDIN>;print@stuf
+f;'

This would only print:

foo

and filter the 'foobar' line out! ;-)

UPDATE: owww, and how did I miss so many earlier posts!? I'm sorry Ovid, I didn't notice your post which makes my look like nothing but straight copy. ;/.

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