G'day paulm2,

Welcome to the Monastery.

You're not reading any input or writing any output.

See the -n and -p options in perlrun.

You also appear to be labouring under the false impression that periods map directly to sentences; for instance, here's one sentence (with three periods):

"Apples cost $1.50 and pears cost $2.50."

Thanks, good to be here.

perl -p056e '$_ .= "\n" x !(++$c % 5)' text-blob.txt > paragraphs.txt
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Thank you, that works! What's the 0056 doing?

I'd also like to randomize these paragraph breaks in a range of 5 - 19 periods (not just every n periods), and output to new file. Here's what I've got; the while loop/output isn't right. If it's more appropriate to edit my initial post or make a new post I will. Thanks.

 #!/usr/bin/perl
  use strict;
  use warnings;

  my $filename = 'input.txt';
  my $out = 'ouput.txt';

  my $minimum = 5;
  my $range = 19;


  my $random_number = int(rand($range)) + $minimum;

  
 
  open(my $fh, '>>', $filename) or die "Could not open file '$filename
+' $!";

    while(my $fh) {
         
  print  my $fsh('$_.="\n\n" x !(++$c % $random_number')); #compilatio
+n error
    };

close $fh;
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> What's 056 doing?

See perlrun for the -0 option, and

perl -wE 'say "\056"'
.
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for the meaning of 56.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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You seem to have changed your post above by deleting some or all of the original question: What's 056 doing?

This makes choroba's reply seem incoherent at best, since he seems to be answering a question that no one has asked.

Please don't change or delete material in your posts in a way that destroys context. Please see How do I change/delete my post? to learn the ways of righteous alteration.

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Can use the $. also. E.g., and not caring for uninitialized warnings:

perl -p056e '$_ .= ("\n")[$. % 5]'
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Thanks, any suggestion how to implement rand in this statement for \n break within a range of character (.) occurrences?