On Mar 21, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Eric Bergman wrote:
Is there a simple way in BBEdit to convert a file with variable-
length lines (and a hard return on each one) so that all lines
have a specific length? In other words, I want to pad lines out to
some column with zeros.
With a Unix Filter.
This will pad all your lines to 80 characters (it will also chop off
any characters past #80 if a line is longer, if you don't want to do
that remove the line containing the "$= substr($_,0,80)".
To change the padding length, just change the three 80's to whatever
you want to pad to.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $l;
while(<>) {
chomp($_);
$_ = substr($_,0,80);
$l = length($_);
($l< 80) ? (print "$_", " " x (80-$l) ."\n") : (print "$_\n");
}
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