Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:39:35 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Chris Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: need a newline between paragraphs.... Message-ID: <20091124013934.GA51279@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20091124003652.GH11723@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <20091124002920.GA51110@thought.org> <20091124003652.GH11723@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:36:52PM -0800, Chris Cowart wrote:
> 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.
>
> Good luck,
>
thanks; you were right on the money.
i think that by doing a
grep -v "^$" <<file[s]>>
all blank lines are scotched. in this perl script, the syntax
didn't catch my eye. at least that's my excuse... .
anyway, axeing that line did the trick; now i can chapterize
my book from the huge text file.
gary
PS: is there any one-liner to add back one newline between
paragraphs?
> --
> Chris Cowart
> Network Technical Lead
> Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
> UC Berkeley
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