regexp matching question

[Rick Delaney]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:27:16AM +0300, Peter wrote:
> 
> I was trying to make sense of it using Perl and I discovered that perl 
> -wlpe 's/../../m;' does not work as I thought it would. The loop implied 
> by -lp seems to sabotage the potential of the /m flag.

You can change the record separator on the command-line so that /m
becomes useful again.

    Process entire message:
    perl -0777 -wpe 's/../../m' < message

    Process a paragraph at a time (the header is the first paragraph):
    perl -00 -wpe 's/../../m' < message
    

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