Regular expression wizards please help!

[haryanto]

Hi fellas.

I want to know how I can use shell script to process a text file containing data of the format below:

Justin=Idiot
Britney=Hot chick

To the format:

define ("Justin", "Idiot");
define ("Britney", "Hot chick");

Thanks in advance!

[SeanW]

Try

cat myfile ¦ perl -p -e 's/(.*)=(.*)/define (\"$1\", \"$2\");/'

Not exactly wizardry, though ;)

Sean

[haryanto]

Hi Sean,

I tried:
cat stupidjustin.txt ¦ perl -p -e 's/(.*)=(.*)/define (\"$1\", \"$2\");/'

But I got
cat: invalid option -- p
Dya have a clue whats wrong?

[timster]

If -p isn't working, maybe this'll work:

cat stupidjustin.txt ¦ perl -ne 's/(.*)\=(.*)/qq~define \("$1", "$2"\)/;print'