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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Parv wrote:

> in message <20040314164347.X35552@wonkity.com>,
> wrote Warren Block thusly...
> >
> > perl -pe 's/\s./\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt
>                 ^
>                 ^
>
> Why do you have '.' after '\s'?  Did you mean '+' instead?

Oops--you're correct.  \s+ for one or more whitespace characters.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA