Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:36:52 -0800 From: Chris Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: need a newline between paragraphs.... Message-ID: <20091124003652.GH11723@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <20091124002920.GA51110@thought.org> References: <20091124002920.GA51110@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> some several weeks ago, i got the appended perl code sent that
> takes a very long txt file and diving by ``Chapter NN'' puts
> the long file into seperate files, 01 to 66. trouble is that
> it is hard to read by eyes without a space between paragraphs.
>
> it's easy for grep to remove all newlines. How do i add them
> back?
[...]
> # We've read at least one chapter heading.
> while (<>) {
> chomp;
> $fh = newchapter($1) if /$regex/;
> next if /^#/;
It looks like this line of code is killing the blank lines. If you
delete the line and re-run the program, you should be good to go. If you
don't have the original anymore, it'll be a lot harder and much less
accurate.
> print $fh "$_";
> }
Good luck,
--
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley
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