[ale] HELP Scripting gurus

[Ben Coleman]

On 24 Apr 2002 09:38:03 -0400, Fletch wrote:

>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Mazukna <Mazukna> writes:
>
>    Thomas> HELP!  need to find out lines in a text file where chars
>    Thomas> 57-58 = "12" awk or sed is capable of doing this ?
>
>        perl -lane 'print if substr($_,57,2) eq "12"'

Why the l and a switches?  You're not doing anything with @F, so -a
isn't needed, and -l just results in every line getting chomped, and
the \n being added back on when printing.  Might as well leave the \n
on the end of the line anyway.

Ben
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