I just found this one online but not sure I understand it what are the .{ and s/ called so I can look them up?
http://user.it.uu.se/~matkin/programming/PERL/perl-cookbook.shtml perl5 -p000e 'tr/ \t\n\r/ /;s/(.{50,72})\s/$1\n/g;$_.="\n"x2' >perl -n00e'tr/\n/ /; print "$1\n" while s/^(.{0,69}\S)\s+//; print "\n"' -- - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for Bimbos] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/