Re(3): Cleaning the Log

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Re^4: Cleaning the Log by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2002 at 01:51 UTC
You can get rid of one more. `perl -pe's/.?\{BS\}//&&redo' file` Update: actually, you one needn't escape the curlies. Another two more. `perl -pe's/.?{BS}//&&redo' file` Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re^4: Cleaning the Log by demerphq (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2002 at 10:07 UTC
Fails on `A{B}{BS}S}bout` [download] :-) Yves / DeMerphq --- Software Engineering is Programming when you can't. -- E. W. Dijkstra (RIP)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re^4: Cleaning the Log by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 03, 2002 at 11:43 UTC
Also the simple degenerate case of the user typing '{BS}', but then, so would any solution that didn't involve modifying the keystroke recorder! Well It's better than the Abottoire, but Yorkshire!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re^4: Cleaning the Log by demerphq (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2002 at 14:03 UTC
Re^8: Cleaning the Log by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2002 at 14:11 UTC
Re^6: Cleaning the Log by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2002 at 12:54 UTC
`perl -pe's/{BS}/\b/g;1while s/(^\|.)\010//' file` Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]