My most common use of Perl: $ someCommandChain | perl -pe 's/because sed regex s...

jrockway · on Nov 27, 2009

Maybe I could spend some time learning a new regex dialect to avoid perl entirely

You should also cut off your nose. It would totally spite your face!

jsrn · on Nov 27, 2009

    >     $ someCommandChain | perl -pe 's/because sed regex sucks/'
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    > Maybe I could spend some time learning a new regex dialect

Maybe you should first learn the Perl regex dialect (the above regex doesn't parse in Perl).

trezor · on Nov 27, 2009

If it wasn't obvious I just intended to write something informative in there, and couldn't come up with a clever substitution expression that would fit the sentence.