http://www.bytemycode.com Revisions for this snippet. Fri, 16 May 2008 19:24:00 +0000 1998-2008 en-us http://www.bytemycode.com http://www.bytemycode.com/img/rss_title.gif http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/513/1/ http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/513/comments/ Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:07:53 +0000 jarfil "Command Line", Perl http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/513/ I've found it kind of complicated to strip newline chars from a file with just the commandline. This tiny piece of code does just that.

I've found it especially useful when extracting tabulated data from a grabbed site where each cell is on a different html line. This way I can pre-filter the html, remove the newlines, and insert them again at register boundaries (row end in this case), so that with just a couple more replacement from within a regex enabled text editor I can copy&paste it directly to a database.

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