Re: [MacPerl] deleting a line again

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 03:36:13PM -0800, george rosenberg wrote:
> 
> let me explain further, what I am probably trying to ask:
> almost always, the line i want to remove is the first line in the 
> file and it begins with a ">".
> i want to remove this line and then close the file.
> 
> is it possible to do this? is there a delete line command, that will 
> remove the line and not leave a empty line behind?
> 

perlfaq5:

How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a line in
the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?

Ronald

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