Re: A little text file munging golf on the list

En op 16 maart 2002 sprak Rick Klement:
> And one without that ugly \S :
>
> s/^((.+ ).+)\n\2/$1 /m&&redo

That looks fine to me. I noticed Bass sprak on 13 maart:

> #!perl -p0
> s#^(\S* )(.*)\n\1#$1$2 #m&&redo
> 
> If the input contains no duplicate lines, the "\S*" can be replaced >
with ".*".

Yet ".*" seems to work fine with duplicate lines. I can't find any
test data where "\S*" behaves differently to ".*".

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