Quote #16

Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z] [a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution). Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl. :-)

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  1. It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)
  2. Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)
  3. It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
  4. Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-)
  5. It's all magic. :-)
  6. Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
  7. It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
  8. Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses…

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