Perl has a ton of short hand features. One that a lot of non-beginners use, and that I forget frequently, is the perl short hand if clause. This tutorial will show you how to use the shorthand if clause in perl:
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While the following Perl script probably won’t be used exactly like I used it – you can still benefit from processing files line by line. Here is how you open a file in Perl, process it line by line (instead of slurping the entire file inefficiently) and modify each line as you go:
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