This worked s/\s+$/;
One question will this only take out blank lines? eg: if I have this line anytext tabe space newline will the non-printing characters be removed and the text be added to the beginning of the next line?
This will only remove whitespace from the END of a line.
If you slurp the file in a one BIG line ... well, you accomplished very little. Removing s,\n,,; forces the whole thing to become one text block.
My while statement in the other post forced line by line processing...
If you are still having trouble processing the file; maybe this trick will slow it down to a reasonable speed:
http://backpan.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TO/TOMC/scripts/slowcat.gz
:)
-- _Sx_ http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/ _____ perldoc -qa.a | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")' | grep Martian
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