I'm facing what I believe to one of the classic text manipulation problems, transforming a document which was typed with a hard return at the end of every physical line, and two consecutive newlines to mark the end of a paragraph.
Would anyone help me write a program which would transform these documents? I'm trying to find all instances of a single newline, and remove it, either inserting or removing space characters around where it was to leave just one space between what was the two lines. I also need to substitute a single newline for two or more consecutive newlines, whether or not they're separated by whitespace characters. I tried looking this up in Perl Cookbook, ch. 6.6, Matching multiple lines, but couldn't figure it out. I couldn't find a module in CPAN that looked like it would work. I couldn't find a way to search the archives of this group, where I bet it's been mentioned before. Extra credit: Is it possible to do this in a one-liner? Thanks for all your help and suggestions. -Kevin Zembower ----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
