Re^2: Combining files

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[Anonymous Monk]

This works perfectly. Can it be updated so that the any line with only ''Total' and then a number' is not included?

Yes. Can you guess how?

[Win]

Using Perl? Perhaps I need to write a Perl program in to do that step. The Perl program one liner could have a system call in it. Maybe actually it would be better if a Perl execution was incorporated into the DOS prompt argument? Maybe something like:



type *>"perl -w while(<STDIN>){$_ =! /Total\s\d{1,5}/g;}}" >..\newFile

#This is rubbish I know.  Just as an example though.

[vitoco]

Use pipe "|" instead of ">" to pass data from one program to another:

type * | perl -ne "print unless /^Total\s\d{1,5}/" > ..\newFile

Using only Perl:

perl -e "while (<*>) {open(F,$_) or next;while(<F>){print unless /^Tot
+al\s\d{1,5}/}}" > ..\newFile

Note: this code has errors, but works as an example.