SPUG: Removing newlines from a multi-line string - questions

[Joshua Lanza]

It was the "\r".  Thank you all 10,000 times.  SPUG rules!  Windows does not 
rule!


>From: Dan Ebert <dan at enic.cc>
>CC: "'spug-list at pm.org'" <spug-list at pm.org>
>Subject: Re: SPUG: Removing newlines from a multi-line string - questions
>Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:50:04 -0800
>
>
>I am fairly sure that perl treats the \n and \r as distinct entities
>when a script is run on a UNIX platform.  So you would need the
>s/[\n\r]//g to make sure you're getting rid of what you want.  I don't
>know if perl handles \n & \r  differently on a Windows platform.
>
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Dan Ebert    dan at enic.cc    eNIC Corporation
>
>"I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it."
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>
>Lorraine Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Enlightenment search:
> >
> > 1.  Joshua writes:
> > "The problem is that it puts newline characters in the HTML at the end 
>of
> > every line in the HTML blob"
> > Um, doesn't the phrase "at the end of every line" imply that the HTML 
>blob
> > already HAS newlines (end-of-line markers), and that Perl is PRESERVING
> > rather than ADDING newlines?
> >
> > 2.  David writes
> > "on Windows, you are dealing with two characters at the end of each 
>line"
> > My understanding is that Perl knows what and how many characters 
>actually
> > comprise a newline (EOL) and handles them transparently.  For example, 
>on
> > Windows, \n is equivalent to CR plus LF.  Doesn't a requirement to 
>handle
> > text processing differently depending on platform go against the idea of
> > Perl portability?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lorraine
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Vergin [mailto:dvergin at igc.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 1:41 AM
> > To: Joshua Lanza; spug-list at pm.org
> > Subject: RE: SPUG: Removing newlines from a multi-line string
> >
> > If you are on Windows, you are dealing with two characters at the end of
> > each
> > line: \r and \n.
> > (And you don't need /i (case-insensitive matches)). So try:
> >
> >     $html =~ s/[\n\r]//g;
> >
> > dv
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org]On Behalf 
>Of
> > > Joshua Lanza
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:01 AM
> > > To: spug-list at pm.org
> > > Subject: SPUG: Removing newlines from a multi-line string
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have a script that gets a chunk of HTML from an access database and
> > plunks
> > > it into a template.  The problem is that it puts newline characters in 
>the
> > > HTML at the end of every line in the HTML blob, which is (1) unseemly 
>and
> > > (2) making it difficult to manipulate the text after the pages are
> > > generated.
> > >
> > > I store the text in $html and then try
> > >
> > >         $html =~ s/\n//ig;
> > >
> > > but nothing seems to happen.  If this worked it would solve (2) from 
>above
> > > but wouldn't help (1).  I guess what I'm really looking for is why I'm
> > > getting the extra newlines in the first place.  Any thoughts greatly
> > > appreciated,
> > >
> > > Josh
> > >
>
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