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On 10/13/24 2:26 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> But in a relevant script language then it should be a one statement
> problem (although in most cases splitting that one statement over
> multiple lines is a good thing for readability).
> 
> import java.nio.file.*
> 
> Files.lines(Paths.get("login.com"))
>       .filter(line -> line.contains("java"))
>       .map(line -> line[2..12])
>       .forEach(System.out::println)
> 
> output pos 2..12 (pos is 0 based!) from all lines of login.com
> that contains "java".

Opening an editor, typing all that in, running the java compiler, and
then running the compiled program all seems like a lot of work to me
when all you need to do is:

$ perl -nE "say substr($_, 2, 12) if $_ =~ m/java/i;" < login.com