Re^3: how to convert new line to ","

Did you actually test that?

When I tried it did replace newlines with commas, but also the double newlines that bh_perl doesn't want to have replaced.

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Re^4: how to convert new line to "," by massa (Hermit) on Jul 25, 2008 at 09:37 UTC
The working line would be `perl -00pe 'chomp; s/\n/,/g; s/$/\n/' data.txt` [download] and, yes, I tested it :-) the `chomp` yanks the last `\n\n`, so you must put one again at the end b4 printing. []s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: how to convert new line to "," by repellent (Priest) on Jul 27, 2008 at 02:35 UTC
We can get around chomping with the "-l" argument.	[reply]