On Sep 9, Mike Singleton said: >How would I remove all the space and replace them with commas, but where >there is more than one space in a row, only replace those with one comma? In >other words make the follwing file comma delimited and strip out everything >preceding the date?
To turn 1 or more spaces into 1 comma, do: s/ +/,/g; or use tr///: tr/ /,/s; I assume you're only dealing with LITERAL spaces (like " "), and not tabs or carriage returns or line-feeds. One problem with s/\s/,/g; or s/\s+/,/g; is that \s matches the newline at the end of each record, so you're replacing the newlines with commas (ugly and bad). -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
