-- Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If isn't perfect. An 'and' at the end of the line will be joined with
> the beginning of the next line, which is not right.
Don't strip the newlines, replace them with white space:
perl -e 'undef $/; ($a=<ARGV>) =~ s/\n+/ /g; print $a' \
[file [file...]] [<file]
i.e., slurp the input whole, replace any sequence of one-or-
more newlines with a single space and spit out the result.
If the input doesn't have multiple spaces in the fields you
might get better result to strip newlines followed by whitespace:
... ~= s/\n\s+/ /g
will take any single newline and all the whitespace that
follows it and replace the result with a space.
If none of the data fields being hacked have spaces in
them a further:
$a =~ s/ +/ /g
will replace one or more literal spaces with a single
space to clean things up a bit:
... -e 'undef $/;($a=<ARGV>) =~ s/\n+/ /g;s/ +/ /g;print $a' ...
will convert nearly anything you can give it into a
nice, clean, single line.
If you want to get things neater than this see the
examples in Parse::RecDescent.
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