Re: pie multiline replace

bill lam wrote:
> Thomas Bätzler wrote:
>> perl -i -ple '$_ = "cc\n$_" if $p =~ m/aa/ && m/bb/; $p=$_'
> 
> Thanks. looks non-trivial for me. Anyway I will copy this idiom into my cheat sheet.
> 
> Thank Gunnar for suggestion too. However I prefer one-liner.

If you think the one-liner is non-trivial then all the more reason that you
should use a proper script. It is a bad idea to use any code unless you
understand why and how it works.

Rob