I have a text file that is a mess. It contains various fields with lots of spaces between the fields. The amount of spaces differs from field to field. Here is a sample of the file:
<8sp>NAME:<13sp>JOHN SMITH<22sp>RANK:<3sp>CAPTAIN<15sp>WIFE:<6sp>POCAHONTAS... What I would like to have after processing the file is a tab delimited file like: <tab>NAME:<tab>JOHN SMITH<tab>RANK:<tab>CAPTAIN<tab>WIFE:<tab>POCAHONTAS... I have been experimenting with the s/// and had some success. The only problem is that I have about 30 of the s/// statements to try and deal with all of the <sp> in the file. I know this is not efficient. What I want to do is replace any repeating spaces (two or more) with a tab. I know the examples below do not work but am just giving it as "pseudocode" of replacing repeating spaces (between 2 and 50) with a tab: s/<sp>[2..50]/\t/gi; or maybe hex value (hex 20 is the space character) s/\x20[2..50]/\t/gi; Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
