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		jsrn on Nov 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl: Love it, or hate it, but don't ignore it `> $ someCommandChain \| perl -pe 's/because sed regex sucks/' > > 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.

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