Substitution String Help

[campbere]

Hello,

I have an xml document that has one too many end tags in over 500 documents. I want to eliminate one of the end tags and thought I would use it with a substitution line. However I have been unsuccesful.

example of text:

</body>
</prod_batch>
</prod_batch>

I wrote:
perl -pi -e &quot;s#</prod_batch>\n</prod_batch>#</prod_batch>#g *.xml

Can someone help?

 

[goBoating]

I think you need an 's' switch on the end of your statement.
The default behavior for Perl regexes is to treat each line separately. The 's' switch turns the entire file into one string.

$var =~ s/find this/replacement text/[red]s[/red]g; 'hope this helps

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