Re: Re: Making my file all one line

Unfortunately that joins words on sucessive lines together. Using the input given above:

    $ perl -pe 'chomp' file 
    line one line infoline two infoline threemore lines etc
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Re: Re: Re: Making my file all one line by ehdonhon (Curate) on Jun 06, 2003 at 10:39 UTC
Yup. Good point. `perl -pe 'chomp; s/(\S)\s$/$1 /;' file` The other thing I failed to mention is if you actually want to alter the file and not just dump to the screen, you would want to run 'perl -pi -e'. Update:* jmcnamara msg'ed me and correctly pointed out that my previous regexp didn't work at all, and if it did it would have also created one space for every blank line. :(	[reply] [d/l]


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