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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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