perl -ple" s[\cL][\n]g" < file > modified
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Thanks for that. The c in "\cL" was the bit (no pun intended) that I didn't know about! Once you gave me that information all of my previous attempts to resolve this now work.
Cheers,
Ronnie
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BrowserUK's idea would probably suffice. Another way would be to set the INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR variable ($/) to "\xC", which would allow you to read one "page" at a time into $_, instead of just one text line at a time. Then you could split the page record into lines, if that's what you need:
{
local $/ = "\x0C"; # form-feed character (^L)
while (<>) { # $_ contains one whole "page"
@lines = split /\n/; # split into lines if you need to
...
}
}
# $/ is now back to its "normal" setting
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