Re^2: Can't remember the term to search for help on! (paragraph mode)

Thank you to all you kind Perl Monks!! All of the above are great solutions. The INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR was what was trying to recall, but you've all offered good solutions. I've only had a chance to try the last solution, and it works like a charm. I didn't realize I could do search and replaces direct from the command line like that. That's awesome! Thanks again!

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Re^3: Can't remember the term to search for help on! (paragraph mode) by tom2112 (Novice) on Dec 08, 2009 at 19:33 UTC
For anyone else that needs to cleanup poorly formatted ebooks in text files, here's what I came up with from the help I received above: perl -p00 -i.bak -le "s/-\n//gs;s/([^!\?\.\"\'\`])\n/\1 /gs;" myfile.txt This will remove newline characters at the end of lines that do NOT end in a period, question mark, exclamation point or some form of quote. However, prior to removing those newline characters, it removes any newline character preceded by a hyphen as well as removing the hyphen. It works great. Thanks Perl Monks!	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Can't remember the term to search for help on! (paragraph mode)
by tom2112 (Novice) on Dec 08, 2009 at 19:33 UTC

For anyone else that needs to cleanup poorly formatted ebooks in text files, here's what I came up with from the help I received above:

perl -p00 -i.bak -le "s/-\n//gs;s/([^!\?\.\"\'\`])\n/\1 /gs;" myfile.txt

This will remove newline characters at the end of lines that do NOT end in a period, question mark, exclamation point or some form of quote. However, prior to removing those newline characters, it removes any newline character preceded by a hyphen as well as removing the hyphen.

It works great. Thanks Perl Monks!

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