use Perl

• Do it in Perl (Score:2)

  by petdance (2468)

  Write a Perl program with a specific heuristic to take care of it. Something like:

  • Read in all the lines of the file
  • Walk thru the lines finding the one with bind parm 1. That's line $x.
  • Make sure that $line[$x+1] is bind parm 2, or else die because your heuristic isn't right.
  • @line[$x,$x+1] = @line[$x+1,$x];
  • $line[$x] =~ s/2/1/;
  • $line[$x+1] =~ s/1/2/;

  Or thereabouts. Seems to me that you don't need to switch the parms, but rather switch their bind numbers.

  It's a quick throwaway tool, but that's

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  • Re:Do it in Perl (Score:1)

    by prakash (2793)

    For a quick throaway tools, one can't beat perl one-liners. Here's one using the regex approach:

    perl -0777 pi.bak -e 's/\(1, ([^\)]+)\)(.*?)\(2, ([^\)]+)\)/(1, $3)$2(2, $1)/gs' file.pl

    Disclaimer: Not tested extensively.

    /prakash
• here's some small improvements (Score:2)

  by jmm (276)

  There is some improvement to be made.

  /2CR         # (CR is return) search for the 2 (or some other way to get there)
  r1kr2        # change 2->1, up, change 1->2
  ddp          # delete 1'st line, append 1'st line after 2'nd

  The "r" is useful to change one character ("R" will overwrite a bunch of chars, it's like insert mode but overwrites).

  The "ddp" switches the current line with the next. It is a variant on the very useful (especiall
  • vi is like perl (Score:2)

    by jmm (276)

    I found one aspect of vi that prepared me well for Larry's view of perl (that writing pidgin perl is a great way to start and should be tolerated, nay encouraged).

    I found that my initial use of vi was adequate, but that every 6 months or a year I would read through the vi manual and pick a few more useful idioms and add them to the set that I knew well enough to use without thinking. After a few years of this, my vi repertoire was large enough that most of the new idioms I tried to learn were not useful o
• vim: C-A C-X (Score:2)

  by rafael (2125)

  With vim, where the C-A and C-X commands are available to increment and decrement numbers, I'll probably be doing (without thinking much), from the 1st line :
  <C-A>ddpk<C-X>
  • Re:vim: C-A C-X (Score:1)

    by prakash (2793)

    Hmm. I didn't know about these. Learnt something new.

    Also, to make it even easier, a temporary binding can be created using map.

    :map <C-Q>  <C-A>ddpk<C-X>

    Of course, a better (preferably unused) key may be used in place of

    <C-Q>

    I just chose that as it is rarely used, I think.

    /prakash
• Finally, something I know... (Score:1)

  by Buck (2837)

  1. Move the cursor to the space after the comma in the param list.
  2. Press "r[Enter]"; replaces the space with a newline.
  3. Do the same on the other line.
  4. Now, move to the line that has the second arg from the first line.
  5. Press "ddp"; moves it after the former second line.
  6. Go down one line to the second argument from the second line.
  7. Press "ddkkP"; moves it after the first line.
  8. Go up to the first line.
  9. Press "J" to join the two lines into one putting a space between the two pieces.
  10. Go down to the next line, and

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  Buck