How to print bunch of data in a file without breaking in to new line

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Re: How to print bunch of data in a file without breaking in to new line by toolic (Bishop) on Jul 31, 2012 at 15:49 UTC
perldoc -f print See also perlintro	[reply]
Re^2: How to print bunch of data in a file without breaking in to new line by Udhay (Initiate) on Jul 31, 2012 at 16:27 UTC
Hi, Thanks, for your quick response. I have stored all the contents of a HTML file in a variable. While i'm printing the data in a file, the content breaks in to new line exactly where the closing tag `</p> or </span> or </div>` appears, but it should not.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How to print bunch of data in a file without breaking in to new line by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 31, 2012 at 16:45 UTC
It can get confusing with html documents, because the html bracket return acts as a newline. Here is a simple way to clean your html. `#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; open (FH,"< zz.html") or die "$!\n"; read( FH, $buf, -s FH ); close FH; #print "$buf\n"; $buf =~ s/\n//g; # strips out all newlines open (OH,"> zz_out.html") or die "$!\n"; print OH $buf; close OH; # zz_out.html will not have any newlines when viewed with a text edito +r, but will still be viewable in a web browser` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to print bunch of data in a file without breaking in to new line by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 31, 2012 at 16:28 UTC
Since you are new to Perl, here is a simple script. Perl only prints a newline if you tell it to. The following prints the numbers 1 to 1000 all on one line, then prints some text on the next line. `#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $numberstring = join ' ', (1..10000); print $numberstring; # printed without a newline print "\n"; # print a newline print "ciao\n"; #printed with a newline` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to print bunch of data in a file without breaking in to new line by Rudolf (Pilgrim) on Jul 31, 2012 at 16:49 UTC
You say you have stored the entire file into one variable, but perhaps your generalizing? Can you show how you stored it? for example: did you store it in a scalar ($var) or list (@var), and how did you print it to the file? perhaps when you took the html from whatever source, it contained newlines, to be sure there are none you can use `chomp()` in a loop to write to this new file	[reply] [d/l]