Introduction Hi all, I have been working the whole day on a one-liner that can do a search replace.. No results jet... What I need to do: I have a datafile called data.txt the content of the datafile: 1? john 2? paul 3? mary ..... 11? stuart 12? peter And so on. There are 28 lines in the file. Now I want to change the line that begins with "1?" to "1? Has left the company." It should be a oneliner that will be called from a batch script. something like: perl -p -i -e "s/search/replace" "data.txt" Does anyone have an idea.. I came up with several variations but ether nothing got replaced or 1 and 10 and 11, etc got replaced. Any help would be most welcome. Regards, Pieter
Are you looking for this. Code: perl -p -e "s/^1[?]/1? Has left the company./" data.txt Output: 1? Has left the company. john 2? paul 3? mary ....... 11? stuart 12? peter
