Greetings again,

Here's version 2 of this little thing. It deals with multiple paragraphs better, and it gets rid of those stupid while loops that were employed to cover my regex ineptness.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Win32::Clipboard;
my $clipboard = Win32::Clipboard();

print "\nText auto-format-clean when copied to the clipboard is active
+.\n";
print "To exit, CNTL-C out of this window.\n\n\n";
print "Usage\n", '='x75, "\n";

while (1) {
    $clipboard->WaitForChange();
    my $text = $clipboard->GetText();

    $text =~ tr/\r//d;
    $text =~ s/\n{2}/\r/g;
    $text =~ s/[ \n\t\f]+/ /g;
    $text =~ s/\s*\r\s*/\r/g;
    $text =~ s/\r/\r\n/g;
    $text =~ s/^\s*//;
    $text =~ s/\s*$//;

    $clipboard->Set($text);

    my $now = localtime();
    print $now, ' => ', substr($text, 0, 45), "...\n";
}

exit;
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Anyone know why, when this is first run, the program generates a whole bunch (20+) report lines? Funny thing is, it doesn't happen all the time, and I can't seem to isolate why based on user behavior. Weird.

-gryphon
code('Perl') || die;